hattons@speakeasy.net wrote:
On Friday 11 October 2002 04:00 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
jfweber@eternal.net wrote:
** Here be Dragons friend , trod lightly ,lest you find yourself in a flame , w/ no breath mints handy.
Just recieved my pkg 8.1 ...
*sigh*. It looks like the people of Northern Neptune will get 8.1 before me. Yet again.
There's an upside to that. You have all the basic gotchas handled on the mailing list.
That's not an upside. I like problem solving. Imagine how boring life would be if every problem had been solved.
Updates always take a lot longer than clean installs. There's usually a lot to do besides just installing packages. Such as determining which packages to install/update and removing the old ones. With a slow disk that can take aeons.
I'd like to benchmark a DVD install against an over the net on switched 100-BaseT Eathernet.
Unless you have a really crappy harddrive, I'd bet the net install would win hands down.
I still wish I had the capability to use the dvd .. a real set and forget install then <VBG>
Or you could copy the contents of the CDs to a hard drive and install from there.
How does that work? I've glanced at that, but never really understood it. Do you just create a partition which will be left out of the original install, copy the DVD (or CDs) there, mount it with a manual install, and let it rip?
Yes, something like that. I use an nfs mount on another computer, so it won't be touched by the install at all. //Anders