newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Joe did an excellent tutorial on the setup of Slackware but beware
> that Speakup is now mainstreamed into new kernels directly from
> Slackware.com. just get the speakup.i or speakup.s disks, depending on
> whether you have a SCSI hard disk or IDE model.  The other files you
> would need to download are the A series, AP series and so on.  Yes, I
> know what you mean about sourceforge's download speeds - not verry
> pretty, are they.  ftp.slackware.com uses sourceforge.net for their
> host but I had a hell of a time downloading the iso images from there
> last summer.  I ended downloading them from Perdue or some place at
> over sixty K per second.

Other places you could try are:

ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu

Ok, so the first one you ould be pulling across the pond, but it's pretty
fast.  If you get a good download, just look for the install.iso file,
it's pretty much all you need if you've also got your kernel image as
described above, just put it onto a cdrom, or expand it onto a hard drive
etc and you should be set to go.  Although there are a lot of fioles, the
iso is 649 mb, and contains most if not all of what you might want.

Cheers.

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