Re: Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I once talked to someone and we decided to d/l while we ate, and
> install afterwards. I knew that there was no way that all five Fedora
> disks would download in time. Kubuntu barely managed to download it's
> 700 megs over http in time (bittorrent is disabled in the university).

You do know that you can install from a rescue CD? It downloads all the
packages it needs (and only the packages it needs) as it installs them.
This might be a better bet for such situations.

Hope this helps,

James.
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