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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how long for ftp installation?
Date: 21 Aug 1996 11:50:40 +0100
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Michael Pye (mikey@dircon.co.uk) wrote:
: I am going to be performing a standard default installation for FTP
: shortly. The default options want over 200 meg of space to set up all
: the filesystems.

: How long is the actual download going to take at 28800 bps from a
: local server ? Does it need to download 200 meg or does it download a
: smaller amount and then extract to that size ?

It downloads compressed tarballs (or are they cpio's?).  The time depends
on how quick your connection is.


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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....