How many SLED disks

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I have been wanting to give SLED a go so have registered for the trial, however it requires a 7 CD or 1 DVD download.

As Virgin media will kindly throttle my connection if I download the DVD, I was wondering, do i need all the CDs. Does anyone know if the first few cds hold most of the important stuff with the rest holding optional stuff, its of no huge concern as I can leave the computer on while I am at work and get the DVD but if possible without...
 
Yep, what BTI said... otherwise VM's STM only kicks in @ 21:00 so you could download the entire set as long as you wait until then. I've learnt to schedule my downloads accordingly and it was a pain to start with but now I'm starting to accept it.
 
I'm with Virgin and as long as I don't download too many isos in the evening I never have a problem.. just queue them up in the morning and get them downloaded, I use a download manager too to maximise the speed of the connection :)
 
GarethDW said:
Yep, what BTI said... otherwise VM's STM only kicks in @ 21:00 so you could download the entire set as long as you wait until then. I've learnt to schedule my downloads accordingly and it was a pain to start with but now I'm starting to accept it.
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Now all you've got to do is write a script that wgets a list of URLs to which you can add that day's downloads. Set the script to run as a cron job at the appropriate hour. :D

Yay, scripting!

EDIT: riddlermarc, which download manager do you prefer?
 
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Thanks guys, I will download the first disk and take it from there.

I have personally never had a problem with the throttling until last week when I downloaded a DVD beta. My gripe was not that it so long but that my connection was useless afterwords, they say its a 75% throttle but for me it was between 700Kb and completely dropped. I was also unaware that they throttled during the day I though it was evening only, but then it was a bank holiday so I don't blame them for that.

It could be worse I could have ADSL.
 
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