From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6d4621311bf16f2712f9933ad4a4a22d@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:08:03 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3df8d8d4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 russ, the plan 9 distribution is very nice and the careful work and thought that went into the distribution. i don't think there's anything stupid about it. however, On Thu Apr 5 11:13:00 EDT 2007, rsc@swtch.com wrote: > Even if you are getting interrupted, the CD is at most 100MB > compressed, which is only 5 hours at 56kbps, so you've got plenty > of time to grab it in the 24-hour window. i found that even with a 56k connection with compression (which works against you in this case), the download took significantly longer. modems can be difficult to keep connected. this in addition to the fact that i didn't know what time of day the new iso was cut, made it nearly impossible to download the iso. - erik