A few questions

[John Gunn]

Hello All:

Well still haven't install or even downloaded 8.0 of the slackware
distribution of Linux but I have a few questions.  I finally found a box I
can experiment with and is a 486 Compact with 16 megs of ram.

I am going to use an old which is about 6 years western digital 3.1 gig and
am wondering using western's utility to kind of pre-format the disk so that
cmos can read the full 3.1 gig drive should I expect any difficulty with
this utility getting in the way of the Slackware  and Speakup installation
of Linux?

Also can 1 use other distributions such as Red Hat Mandrake etc?

Any help would be appreciated and if some of this is a little off topic,
sorry.  smile