Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:Yes, it is.... If yum fails during the download phase and you run it again it will skip the packages it has previously downloaded.You presume each package can come down in one piece. I'm not, since I know better. Downloading at 28Kbps means that even 1MB takes 5 minutes. KDE libs is 15Meg, for example.Wow, your dial-up is that unstable that it can't download 15Meg in one sitting? You must end up doing a lot of "wget -c".
Not mine, my sister's. She lives in rural Georgia. And she has only
one phone line, so she also doesn't like to tie it up for long periods.
DSL is UNAVAILABLE in rural Georgia. Often, she doesn't even manage
14Kbps average download speed.
Mike
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