On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:05:09 +0200, Ariane wrote:

> I just want a very minimalistic box, web browser, web server, open office
> and that's it.

Well, even install-minimal is 50MB. The main problem you might face is
dropped connections. So even if you wanted to run it, you could
get cut off without warning and wonder why? If I am not mistaken, this
could take 2 hours! Am I right?

56Kbits/second / 8
=7kb/second
50MB = 50000KB
50000/7 = 71428571 seconds
71428571/60 = 119 minutes

(assuming you get top speed all the time)

OTOH, a stage 1 install (not sure what that will get you though) is only
14MB and you have a greater likelihood of succeeding with that.

Good Luck! (hope my math is right!)



>
> "Peter" <peter@localhost.com> wrote in message
> newsan.2005.02.11.14.51.24.394365@localhost.com. ..
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:39:21 +0200, Ariane wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> > I'm interested in Gentoo because of its updating system (don't
>> > remember
> its
>> > name...) but I wonder if I can use it on a plain old 56k modem
>> > connexion
> ?
>> > Is it just impossible or only very looooooong ? Thanks for any advice
>> > about that !
>>
>> Well, initially, very long. I would get an install cd and the packages
>> cd and install from that medium first. Then, SOME updates (X, java-sdk,
>> kde, gnome, etc) will take a bit to download, others will not take
>> long. But if you stay current, it may not be too bad if you stick with
>> the system libraries and minor packages.