Hi, I live in Colombia and so far I have been using a dial up connection with a 56Kbps modem. I usually install little updates from home. When there is a huge update I download the packages in my office and then burn them on a CD or copy them on a USB pen drive. -William El jue, 02-12-2004 a las 11:24 -0800, Jerry Gaiser escribió: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just install FC3, coming from RedHat 9. So far I'm impressed and happy > with the installation, but I'd like to keep the system updated. > > Now the problem.. We live in a very rural section of NW Oregon. No > broadband and likely no reasonably priced solution for many years. On > top of that, the phone copper coming into the house is pretty limited to > about 22K and needless to say, multi-meg downloads are at best painful, > if not possible. That means that yum is pretty much out of the picture > for large updates. > > How do other people on modem connections handle the situation? I've been > using d4x (Download for X) for large file downloads, as it can restart > the download if I'm disconnected. The same could be used for updates if > there were a central update site or email notification. > > Any comments or insight appreciated. > > - -- > Jerry Gaiser in North Plains, Oregon USA (Zone8a) - 45.6933N 123.0418W > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFBr2v/brwqHGvlLS0RAuWYAJ9qNGu58YqvETgShoHG4ungvHANJgCgmznu > q48pkGbkOelM/Ureo0tqhhk= > =JPP2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
