Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk

[Alex Snow]

I still think that downloading and writing and using 6 floppies to install
slackware is kinda a pain in the ass.  What happend to two disks?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk


> I am also disappointed with some of the changes that were made in
slackware 8.1. I too tried two slackware sites, and finally downloaded the
install image in about 9 hours with a broadband connection. Usually, I can
get full iso images in about 2 hours.
>
> I have a none-production machine which I've been planning to try redhat
and debian on for a while. I think that I'll move to debian if slackware
makes any other changes I do not like.
>
> For now, I think I'll continue running slackware 8.0 on my server until
the hd dies or something, and upgrade to new packages as neded.
> Greg
> P.S., I found I was missing having gnu/linux on my windows only machine,
so I split my vfat partition (since umsdos support was removed from
slackware 8.1 (not a good change)), and installed slackware 8.1. I found
that most of the new changes aren't as bad as I expected, but still ...
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:19:05PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I haven't looked at the root disks yet but I'm kinda disappointed that
> > the other ISO images aren't available for download anymore.  And
> > furthermore, I've been to two different slackware sites and the
> > transmission speeds are horrible! I have a broadband connection here
> > and the one install ISO image is downloading at dial-up speeds! that
> > sucks.
> >
> > I'm seriously thinking about maybe looking into Debian.  I'll have to
> > learn another distro and the layout of config files and all that
> > but...
> >
> > Is it true the only way to get the other CD's is to buy them now?
> >
>
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