On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Rohit wrote:
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Matthew Johnson wrote:
You won't get an ISO, but will get an FTP install, which by most accounts is much better than ISO's...
And how exactly is that? Have you ever tried an FTP install from home? Even over a cable-modem?
I have. On a 256Kb DSL line. Yast seemed to believe it would take 50 or so hours, but it guessed wrong. I started it before going to bed, and when I got up it was finished. That is roughly the same time it would have taken me to download 1 CD, but SuSE is 6 CDs (If you don't need the sources.) I am pretty sure I have some stuff that would have been on each of the 6 CDs, so for me it took a 6th of the download time to use ftp instead if ISOs. BTW, I selected a lot of "extras" during package selection, so the gain would be larger for people with smaller needs. After all, who really needs several desktop environments and the -devel packages for everything. Cutting the download time to a 6th (or smaller) would mean even larger time savings for modem users. It is a different matter if you are going to install a whole bunch of machines, but I only have one, so for me the ftp install was a huge benefit. (And how many home users have a whole bunch of machines?) Regards Ole