On Friday 21 January 2005 04:13 pm, Julie Sloan wrote:
> What is your choice? (1-4) 4
> To satisfy dependencies, the following 556 packages are going
> to be installed (1088 MB):
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> I am on dialup. 22Mb takes an hour and a half. Do I need 1088
> additional Mb??????
It's not 1088 'additional' mb. MOF, it's not even 1088 mb's.
1088 is the installed diskspace required, but since you're
updating (replacing) packages, the the difference in disk space
used is minimal. Also, 1088 represents the uncompressed size of
the packages. Since the rpm's are compressed, your d/l would be
roughly 40% of 1088, or 400 to 450 mb's.
That's still way too much for dialup. I suggest you, beg
borrow, or steal some 10.1 CD's, or re-install 10.0, saving /home
if you can. If /home's not on a separate partition now, and you
have enough diskspace on a storage partition, just copy your
entire /home directory to that partition. Then copy it back in
after a re-install of 10.0, overwriting the install /home. This
probly isn't practically feasible if your storage area is any
type of Windoze file system. It's possible, but much more
complicated.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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