[clue-talk] Installing stuff generally and Installfest

[rex evans]

Hi Angelo,
I have a laptop (only), so I can go anywhere and do an install.
Maybe I will have to visit Installfest regularly to get the 
big software items.

I was also theorizing that WiFi would serve on occasion.
Is WiFi too slow or too unreliable for installing?

I am also considering wireless broadband. I see Cricket advertised on
television and other offerings on the web. Various forum postings are
describing problems with these new offerings, as I would expect.

For
the longer term, I am tryiing to find a solution that works for 2
residences, therefore my interest in wireless WiFi  and wireless
broadband.

OTOH, once I get some basics installed (gcc, opengl, R, etc.), I could go
six months without wanting (installing) anything. Or not. haha.

My other constraint on installing: I need to get most of it on my external
disc drive, not my "C" drive =hda, which is very limited on space.


--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
From: Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Installing stuff generally and Installfest
To: "CLUE talk" <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>
Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 2:31 PM



Do you have any other access to high speed Internet?  I think high speed 
Internet is almost a requirement for setting up and keeping a Linux up 
to date.

I went through some time without Internet at all.  What I did was take 
my laptop to a friend's place with a USB attached drive, and then I used 
apt-mirror to create a repository on my drive that I could later attach 
to my home computers.  It works really well, but you do have to edit 
your sources accordingly.


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