On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:14:23 +0000
Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 20:32, Conall O'Brien wrote:
>> I don't understand your arithmetic.
> It is going to take me about 6 hours to download FC-3.
> It will take me less than 30 minutes to install or upgrade
> on my not very fast laptop.
An ISO download pulls down everything... a net install/upgrade
only pulls down the bits you need - so your current approach
is 6 hours download plus 30 minutes install... the net install
won't take 6.5 hours to run because you won't be doing a download
of everything.
However - for two, or three installs the benefits of the first
download are huge - as the CD can be used for subsequent
installs without incurring the download penalty.
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