newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

Tue Apr 30 23:53:17 EDT 2002

If you have a burner, just get install.iso and maybe extra.iso for slackware from the isos directory, and burn them. No need to download all 25 things there.
Greg

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Rob DeZonia wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>      Have a couple questions.  First is about Debian.  When I go to
> the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to
> download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the
> Debian ftp site to download any other files?
>      Now on to Slackware.  First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within
> the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware
> tutorial.  When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there
> are about 25 subdirectories of files to download.  Must I download
> them all?  That could be quite a job since the average speed has been
> about 5K per second. lol
>      Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package
> installer?  Thanks for letting me ramble.  I want my first Linux
> install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions.
> 
>           Rob
> 
> 
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