Progress, but now...

[Alex Snow]

you can get all 4 slackware iso's from 
ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso.

If I were you I would install slackware on your box. slackware was my 
first distro and i found it a good platform to learn on. I recently 
installed fedora on a pentium/233 with 256mb of ram and found it to 
not be worth the effort it took to get it running. the installer was 
extremely slow and I wasn't given the choises I have learned to expect 
from slackware such as whether to boot in graphical or text modes. 
Another con of the fedora distro is it takes up 3 cd's. Slackware's 
entire set contains 4 cd's:
1. the main install cd.
2. the second install cd containg gnome/kde and also a live rescue 
disk.
3. the first source disk
4. the second source disk.
so you only really need disk1 but I would also grab disk2 bc of the 
rescue cd and it comes with the extras directory. this makes it a lot 
easier to install without all the cd swapping of fedora.
On 
Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:58:04PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> Hi, 
> My issues with the serial port have been fixed.  Sure enough, it was disabled in the bios.
> 
> Now comes the preparation of installing Linux.
> I have a copy of the Slackware 9.1 boot and root disks, (3 floppies in all) and the 3 shrike images burned onto cd. 
> First, I've seen references to the slackware .iso images, but haven't been able to actually find them.  So any info of where they can be obtained would be appreciated.
> Second, if I interpreted certain recent comments correctly, it appears that the newest red hat distro is the fedora, not the shrike.  True?
> Finally, what would be the pros and cons of these distributions? 
> I hope to eventually install circlemud and learn some C++ while learning the mud server.  However, first things first.  I will need to learn basic Linux and get a more complete understanding of the Linux infrastructure.  Currently, too much windows/dos in the brain. 
> 
> Thanks for any and all help.
> -- Rob
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