[cva66snipe]

My only problem with the disk is downloading it. Hard to do at 52K connect LOL. But there is a Book a Million about 20 miles away with several Linux variant magazines that have the disk inside them. You buy the magazine for $10-$15 and the free disk is yours. That should also be able to boot from disk shouldn't it?

I've gotten by almost 16 years on dial up. Not by choice but because no other means for service available except possibly Hughesnet. It would be difficult even for that. I have a ridge on three sides of my house and all but the northwest is blocked by it. Cell service in the summer is also hit and miss. Comcast is less than a half mile away and they have no intentions of expanding. I'm too far out for DSL and AT&T is trying to phase out landlines in the next decade or so.

[nascarnation]

My idiot BIL lives in rural Missouri and has a sat service named Wild Blue which seems to be fairly reliable.

[familyop]

"My only problem with the disk is downloading it. Hard to do at 52K connect LOL."

There are some downloaders (free packages, programs) that allow pauses and resumes. There's a Firefox browser extension that's easy to use, and it's called DownThemAll. There are others.

"But there is a Book a Million about 20 miles away with several Linux variant magazines that have the disk inside them. You buy the magazine for $10-$15 and the free disk is yours. That should also be able to boot from disk shouldn't it?"

Yes. That should boot and work fine. But you might want to upgrade from the Net anyway, eventually, which brings us back to downloading much sometime.

You might check to see if there is a wireless Internet provider within ten miles or so. It's different from cellphone access and requires a small, easy to mount antennae with line of sight to the provider's relay (usually on a hill somewhere). Should be able to deliver 10 Mbps or more and shouldn't cost much.

VOIP phone service with that can run as little as $10 with such providers that have that to offer, too. I do it from over 20 miles, but this is a very high elevation (usually less atmospheric matter between here and there than in lower areas). Well, time to charge some batteries now. It's been very unusually cloudy, and the sky has been hugely smoked-up for days. Must be some fires to the west or something.