[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

[Peter Larsen]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 12:50 -0500, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
>  Great fskin' balls of fire, Maxwell, no one's proposing taking away
> your big honkin' DVDs!
> 
> All I said was it'd be nice not to have to download all that if I
> didn't need it, and I wondered why so few distros offer that choice.

Hmmm - may I suggest a web install then? Download the distro's boot.iso
image, boot off it, and when asked for "media" choose HTTP and point it
to one of the mirrors. Presto, instant install with minimum install.

DVDs have proven great when we've done hand-outs. Full systems, easy
setup, for even hard-core users. But I agree with you a great deal of
the way - we mostly use the media once and then do updates via getapt,
yum etc. after the initial install is done.

-- 
Peter Larsen <plarsen at famlarsen.homelinux.com>
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