On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Jerry Gaiser wrote: > > Now the problem.. We live in a very rural section of NW Oregon. No > broadband ... ... > if not possible. That means that yum is pretty much out of the picture > for large updates. Others have indicated that you can watch the announcemnt postings. You can also use up2date to notice packages that need updating. Then you can use curl or wget to pull the individual packages from your favorite location and perhaps place them in /var/spool/up2date for up2date to fide or install them by hand. up2date will notice the file and flash a message 'already' downloaded. Besure to check the 'After installation, keep binary packages on disk" on the Retrieval/Installation tab (up2date --configure). Both curl and wget know how to "reget" on a file. This lets you be disconnected with a minimum of pain and restart a download later. Hint, If you run up2date from a command line you can see the URLs that it looks at. You can use a browser to explore the download sites too. Also you should look for other folk in the same part of Oregon that run Fedora. A little bandwidth file sharing goes a long way, use CD-RW... With a dialup you do not need all the updates because almost all services will be turned off or firewalled off. i.e. You can be selective and deliberate... -- T o m M i t c h e l l spam unwanted email. SPAM, good eats, and a trademark of Hormel Foods.
