Progress, but now...

Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net
Mon Feb 9 14:02:58 EST 2004


Exelent point Chuck. While we're on the subject of books, try out the
following site if you want to get some good information about Linux:

http://www.tldp.org

this site contains howtos, guides, and just about any other sort of
documentation about Linux you might want.

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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> Also, the 3rd CD contains a book about Slackware which you can
> access with Lynx. I have copied all four of my CD's to my HD, and
> I access that book with a command like this:
>
> lynx file://localhost/zip/cd3/slackware-book/Slack8Book.html
>
> It won't teach you Linux, but it answers most Slackware
> questions.
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > 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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