[GTALUG] debian Linux -- Installation DVDs Full Set - Shipped To Canadian Destination ??

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Mar 5 12:54:48 EST 2018


On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 12:07:11PM -0500, Loui Chang via talk wrote:
> In 2018 Debian cannot perform resumable downloads in its installer and
> package manager?

I believe if it times out and you retry it will resume, but it would still
be painful.  I don't remember if the installer has dialup support or not.
The documentation appears to claim it does support dialup.

It would be extremely painful to use though given the number of hours
it would take.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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