Sridhar R wrote:
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| What do you think the amount date (in MB) downloaded by dist-upgrade
| will be if I had to install gnome, xfce, gimp, emacs, firefox,
| thunderbird, ... (I need to calculate before hand as I am on dialup)
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For first time install, it should be roughly around 2Gigs (plus or
minus a few hundred MBs ;) )
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| Again, how much will apt-get update take? (assuming an update per
| week frequency)
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The total size should be less than 4MB for sarge per update. The only
thing that keeps changing is usually 'main'... which means you would
only require around 2MB per week (therefore, about 4MB x 4weeks + ~8MB
per month on an average.) Upgrading is a different thing
altogether. Nowadays, I upgrade only about once in two weeks and I end
up downloading about 250MB per upgrade.
cheers,
-Suraj
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