Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

[Mike McCarty]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>First, one may not have reliable connections, so downloading an image
>>piece by piece using, say, wget -c is viable, while failing a yum
>>install isn't restartable.
> 
> 
> 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.

>>Second, one may not have a large piece of disc to devote just to
>>downloading a huge ISO image, while one may be able to do 700MB pieces
>>one by one.
>>
>>Others may occur to you.
> 
> 
> I suppose one could sit around all day throwing up roadblocks to anything.

I suppose one could shrug off problems which affect
other people all day long as well.

Mike
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