Progress, but now...

[ameer armaly]

I also found debian easy to install, and the nice thing is you can
download almost everything over the net, you just need boot/root disks.


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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