Which Linux (again, I suspect)

[Tim Burgess]

Hi,

I've got my friend downloading the slackware_current at the moment, but
I'll certainly read the doc anyway.  Thanks to those who advised, on and
off list.

I'll be back...

Cheers.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: 13 August 2002 15:47
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Which Linux (again, I suspect)



Tim:

I'm not providing the following URL to try and talk you out of using 
Slackware, but your question about ISO images suggests to me that you 
would benefit from reading our installation HOWTO available at:

	http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html

 
On Tue, 13 
Aug 2002, Tim Burgess wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Some of you will almost certainly groan to see me back again after my 
> abortive attempts to get Linux going on some decrepit hardware.  The 
> good news is that I now have access to something a little better with 
> a network card that's supported.  I've got a Sony Vao laptop running 
> at 600 MHz.  I've got Slackware 7.1 and some kind soul gave me a V8.0 
> CD, which I can't lay my hands on.  I notice that 8.1 is out and I 
> have intermittent access to an ADSL link.  Two questions:
> 
> 1 - Should I go for Slackware 8.1 or another distro?
> 
> 2 - Can somebody give me a complete download URL to get what I need - 
> I'll be telling somebody else what to do and I don't want to mess them

> around.  I noticed on the Slackware site that there were two links for

> 8.1, one of which was called an ISA image.  This terminology confused 
> me
> - is it an ISA image I'm looking for in order to burn it onto a CD?
> 
> All suggestions and advice gratefully accepted.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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