newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

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Also try the server ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/
That's whare I got my slackware iso's (in the /slackware directory).
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher at bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware


> 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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