Newbie Install Question - downloading and burning the install CDs, p2p

[Rich Rudnick]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:27 -0600, Tab Gilbert wrote:
> > I hate replying to myself:)     If the warty installs, just one more
> > overnighter will bring you up to date with hoary :)
> 
> I have Warty installed.  I have been (was) doing the Synaptic updates
> until one of the updates broke the machine (at least to my feeble
> mind) and had to reinstall Warty.  Saw that one could change Warty to
> Hoarty in the Synaptic manager but afraid after that.
> 

> <Off-topic> 
> 
> Live out in the boonies and every move made is is clouded by - DO NOT
> LOSE THE DSL CONNECTION!!!  It just seems that in order to learn this
> stuff you need another machine around you know will operate if you
> really need to do something.
> It appears the whole system is only 75 percent functional, out of the
> box, to a (middle-age fart who has rode a mouse a time or two) newbie
> who just wanted to p2p, print, listen to some tunes and learn the
> Linux way without having to jump into terminal window hell from the
> beginning.
> 

Not off topic for me: I had dsl for a few years, up until late 2004. Up
until recently, I've been on a 30 year old line, 3k dial-up. I've just
moved to a better link, but I still would feel your pain.
> < End of Off-topic> 
> 
> Philippe - thanks for the wget -c --limit-rate=xK http:xxxx.  A
> command I could understand and it worked.  Gonna give Kubuntu Live a
> try later to see if the checksum problem still exists.

>From what I've gathered, hoary will be completed by April 6th (?).
Probably most of the 25 pct will be dealt with by then.