Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/30/2012 12:22 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > On Saturday 29 December 2012, James Freer > wrote: > >> In the UK most broadband providers offer 10GB. > > Obviously, I'm not familiar with the market in the UK, but here in > Canada, many ISPs offer a "basic" or "beginner" package with 10 GB

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 29 December 2012, James Freer wrote: > In the UK most broadband providers offer 10GB. Obviously, I'm not familiar with the market in the UK, but here in Canada, many ISPs offer a "basic" or "beginner" package with 10 GB or 25 GB. For a few dollars more, you can have 50 GB, which i

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 09:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/29/2012 2:46 AM, James Freer wrote: >>> I'm with BT Infinity in the UK. Unmetered & 75 MBps down & 15 up. >> >> hmm - i think i need to have a word with BT! But i don't see how you >> can be unmetered and then 75 down and 15 up tbh. Bit more le

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/29/2012 2:46 AM, James Freer wrote: >> I'm with BT Infinity in the UK. Unmetered & 75 MBps down & 15 up. > > hmm - i think i need to have a word with BT! But i don't see how you > can be unmetered and then 75 down and 15 up tbh. Bit more learning and > exploring necessary. Nice to know some

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 10:46 AM, James Freer wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> On 12/29/2012 09:54 AM, James Freer wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: > You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big f

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Rob Kampen
On 12/29/2012 11:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/29/2012 1:54 AM, James Freer wrote: I've got two spare PCs so i've never looked at VM and certainly never had a PC capable of taking 16GB RAM. Current PC is only about 18 months old so i think i need to shop more carefully next time. the new In

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread James Freer
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 12/29/2012 09:54 AM, James Freer wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband download. I think i'd buy one. But i appreciate your

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/29/2012 09:54 AM, James Freer wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: >>> You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband >>> download. I think i'd buy one. But i appreciate your advice. >> >> unless your broad

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/29/2012 1:54 AM, James Freer wrote: > I've got two spare PCs so i've never looked > at VM and certainly never had a PC capable of taking 16GB RAM. Current PC is > only about 18 months old so i think i need to shop more carefully next time. the new Intel Core i5 box I built last month can hol

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-29 Thread James Freer
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: >> You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband >> download. I think i'd buy one. But i appreciate your advice. > > unless your broadband is metered, or really slow (and then should it b

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/28/2012 3:21 PM, James Freer wrote: > You mean the bin DVD. Thing is with the DVD they are big for broadband > download. I think i'd buy one. But i appreciate your advice. unless your broadband is metered, or really slow (and then should it be called broadband?), 4GB or whatever is really n

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread James Freer
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> Download the netinstall & choose your window manager. Save you a lot >> of time. > > My advice is different: download the regular DVD (not the live DVD) > and use it to install. The first disk is sufficient. > > T

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Phil Dobbin wrote: > Download the netinstall & choose your window manager. Save you a lot > of time. My advice is different: download the regular DVD (not the live DVD) and use it to install. The first disk is sufficient. The reason I have a different opinion is because netinstall is too minimal

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread James Freer
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 12/28/2012 08:28 PM, James Freer wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> I'm just about to start using Centos again. I used it briefly a couple of >> years >> ago but found the switch to rpm a bit much after using deb for 5 years. Now >> there seem to be a lot of c

Re: [CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/28/2012 08:28 PM, James Freer wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm just about to start using Centos again. I used it briefly a couple of > years > ago but found the switch to rpm a bit much after using deb for 5 years. Now > there seem to be a lot of changes on the deb front so i'm going to try aga

[CentOS] Live CD iso

2012-12-28 Thread James Freer
Hi folks I'm just about to start using Centos again. I used it briefly a couple of years ago but found the switch to rpm a bit much after using deb for 5 years. Now there seem to be a lot of changes on the deb front so i'm going to try again with rpm. I noticed that there is now a live CD (as