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<B>Marc Paré</B>
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<PRE>Le 2010-10-30 21:12, Graham Lauder a écrit :
><i> On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 02:47:26 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
</I>>><i> On Friday 29 October 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> from Kira<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">elegant.pegasus at gmail.com</A>> who wrote:
</I>>>><i> This one is already been replied: In some place in this world, some
</I>>>><i> countries don't have enough bandwidth to support such big downloading
</I>>>><i> data(May cause days...).
</I>>>><i> A might perfect solution is that making custom images according to the
</I>>>><i> need of downloader, but currently we don't seem to have such plan.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Fot such a case, a CD .iso that does a minimal install (with all locales
</I>>><i> offered), and leave the big packages (OO, Gimp, all the games etc) to be
</I>>><i> downloaded at leisure later.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Oh god nonono! You obviously have a broadband connection.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Cheers,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Ron.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> CD or DVD, either is too big to download on my dialup. a 700meg cd would take
</I>><i> a week to download considering that I have to keep phone line free during the
</I>><i> day and early evening.(that's of course as long as the server supports
</I>><i> resuming and the download doesn't break, which of course you don't find out
</I>><i> until the end, then you have to start all over. :/
</I>><i>
</I>><i> People with limited connectivity want to be able to obtain media with
</I>><i> everything they are likely to need plus all the options if possible.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's why I went with OpenSUSE rather than Ubuntu, Suse comes on a dualsided
</I>><i> DVD, 64 bit one side, 32 bit the other, live gnome and kde sessions on both
</I>><i> sides and lots of options so that you can install a full system of your choice
</I>><i> from desktop to webserver without needing a broadband connection.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Ubuntu on the other hand /only/ comes on CD with one DE and a basic desktop
</I>><i> only install and it assumes you have a network connection, yet it can't setup
</I>><i> a dialup connection during install, MDK 8.0 used to do that no problem.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Please, DVD and a way to obtain the media at a reasonable price.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Cheers
</I>><i> GL
</I>><i>
</I>
Would there be a way to restore the capability for dialup connection at
install time?
I like the Community approach that Wobo suggested.
Marc
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