I did a Gentoo stage-3 install from the Net on
broadband (when in the US at 240 KB/sec). It took 17
hours (base, xfree and KDE). It was cool though :)
Installation documentation:
http://www.geocities.com/shakthimaan/gentoofreebsd.html
(Stage-1 would have taken me atleast 4 days)
Now using BSNL DIAS in India (at 10 KB/sec max) for my
"emerge" stuff and updates. 512 download/upload limit
per month. It is pretty good for updates. Something
better than VSNL dial-up.
If your ethernet is detected by 2004.1 then you can
use the Internet to install Gentoo, I guess. But, I
would recommend you do a stage-3 install from the CD
and then update your system. I only install new
packages, not update the system often. But, may have
to "emerge sync" and "emerge -uDav world" sometime
soon.
My $0.02,
Shaks
--- Sukrit <sukrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm currently a dial-up user and am plannning to get
a BSNL DIAS
connection. I'm also very keen to move to Gentoo. I
was just wondering
if there were any users of Gentoo on a similar
data-restricted
connection. How much data is used up during a stage
1 install containing
Gnome 2.6 and a few other basic stuff like
evolution...
Woudl it be recommended that I do a stage 3 and then
just update? How
much data transfer would that take? The reason im
taking broadband is so
that i can emerge stuff.
Sukrit.D.
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