Phillip, I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet. I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which is as it should be.
So what were you comparing your dialup costs to? I think you'd be stuck doing an apt upgrade or downloading a ton of files and making your own CD's with a CD burner, which would be pretty messy right now, anyway... If you're ever looking for inexpensive Slink CD-ROM's, http://www.cheapbytes.com makes a nice Official Debian distro that comes in at a very low price. On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > A while ago I sort of got to grips with apt and decided to upgrade my > system from Slink to Potato. Since I have only a 56K modem and pay for > my call charges it was with some trepidation that I entered apt-get > dist-upgrade just before going to bed one night. I had set a time-out on > my ppp connection and woke up to find that I had been connected around > four hours. Weighing up the cost of purchasing the CDs and four hours > worth of telephone calls it was clear the ppp method had won. Since then > I regularly to apt-get dist-uptdate to ensure I always have the latest > packages. +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+