being offline problems

being offline problems

Posted Sep 30, 2008 9:23 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
Parent article: openSUSE and the distribution of proprietary software

After all, people installing Linux from a CD or DVD have usually resigned themselves to a massive download of package updates after the first boot anyway.

Unfortunately, yes. But there still are situations -even in the industrial west- where you want install Linux, or upgrade it "in the woods" with no practical broadband. I recently had one such experience, and found that even making an off-line collection of packages for an upgrade is painful. (I never imagined that a DVD-R would get too small for just the packages needing upgrade!). Eventually much of the upgrade got done by trickling it over GPRS, fortunately there was no great hurry and we had an unlimited data plan.

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