-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 June 2003 02:19, Jason wrote:

Hi,

On Thursday 19 June 2003 8:00 am, John wrote:

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Hiya gang,

Looks like with the k_athlon kernel update, it's 54MB. On dialup, I might be able to get it all between the time I went to sleep and when I wake up. As for the kernel source, at 180MB +/-, there's just no way I can do it. If someone's willing, I think I can wrestle up a little cash to send for a CD-R with both updates on it. I don't have a checking account nor any kind of credit card, so I can't do the paypal thing, but my word is worth better than gold. When I give it, I keep it, no matter what the consequences. I know it's unorthadox, but it's literally the *only* way I can get this update. If someone's actually interested, email me, and we can work out whatever needs to be worked out. Thanks.

I don't mind doing this, if you're in the UK. CDRs are cheap. ;-) I take paypal, too if anyone else in the UK with dial-up wants a disk with the updates on. Email off-list with your requirements.

Regards,

Jason

Oops. I tend to forget that this letter is filled with good folk from all over the world! Heh. I don't know how much it'd cost to send anywhere overseas (especially when it'd be safe to have the CD in something that won'rt break easily...we all know how the mail is). If you could get a rough estimate on how much it'd cost, I'd sure appreciate it. I'm here in the U.S., in Tennessee (just a dumb country boy). Let me give the download a try, since someone else said they did and it only took them about 35 minutes (maybe all it downloads is certain 'parts' or the kernel stuff?). John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8d0qH5oDXyLKXKQRAhWgAJ9yyHJ0ZTvqSsftE3KFcYXXZ9HfmgCgulOU mnJDEnwbAa+DntOhBL4HC74= =pqdU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

The 03.06.19 at 10:56, John wrote:

Let me give the download a try, since someone else said they did and it only took them about 35 minutes (maybe all it downloads is certain 'parts' or the kernel stuff?).

The *.patch.rpm is much smaller. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

* Basil Chupin [06-19-03 04:49]: [big snip]...

Well I just ( a few minutes ago) updated my Athlon system using YOU and 56K dialup modem. The whole process took less than 35 minutes.

I guess it only took this short time because I live in Australia and, due to the effects of gravity, the data flows much quicker in this direction.

Sounds like more than *data* flowing ?? Maybe a few pints <grin>. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:44, Bruce Marshall wrote:

On Thursday 19 June 2003 03:00, John wrote:

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Hiya gang,

Looks like with the k_athlon kernel update, it's 54MB. On dialup, I might be able to get it all between the time I went to sleep and when I wake up. As for the kernel source, at 180MB +/-, there's just no way I can do it. If someone's willing, I think I can wrestle up a little cash to send for a CD-R with both updates on it. I don't have a checking account nor any kind of credit card, so I can't do the paypal thing, but my word is worth better than gold. When I give it, I keep it, no matter what the consequences. I know it's unorthadox, but it's literally the *only* way I can get this update. If someone's actually interested, email me, and we can work out whatever needs to be worked out. Thanks.

Or wud-ja rather download the vanilla kernel source (27MB) and learn to do-it-yourseff? Much easier... no more waiting for an RPM. Bake it the way you want it....

Heh...I'd like to, but the last 5 times (actually the *only* times) I tried to do my own kernel, somehow, somewhere, I screwed who knows what up, and ended up having to reinstall the OS. I tried the way the SuSE books say, and the way some others have said, to do it, but I just think somewhere, a step was missing or something, so I'm kinda leary of doin' my own (but if I saw two seperate people write down the instructions and they were exactly the same, heh, I might try it again. It's just that I never seemed to see any two sets of instructions on how to do it that was similar in *every* respect). John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8eA/H5oDXyLKXKQRAot6AJ9bBKWNwtrRUxCjtvvQHNJVxqsGoACbBUmT nESDnvKtTqPE6CoCIlhCm7Y= =EBTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----