no eyes installRe: New

[Alex Snow]

I'd say go with slackware. some people may disagree with me here but 
It was my first distro and I like it the most out of all the distros. 
It also runs well on low-end hardware where redhat doesnt. I've had it 
running on a pentium/120 with 16mb ram and a 1005mb hard disk. I'm 
also instaling it on a pentium 60 with 20mb ram and a 1.2 gig hdd and 
it should run pretty good.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:54:21PM -0500, 
Kyrath wrote:
> Ok, this message answers the question of whether partitions need to be set
> before installation of linux, or whether there needs to be some kind of OS
> on the disk to begin with.
> 
> Now, what distro would be recommended for the first try at linux.  I'm
> dealing with a P-II, 266 MHz, and a 4-4.5 GB hard drive.
> 
> Will the *linux text console=ttyS0* work on distributions other than red
> hat?  From what I was able to discern, the speakup modified version of red
> hat requires a 5 GB hard drive.
> 
> Thanks for all of the good info
> -- Rob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
> To: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>; "Speakup is a screen review system
> for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: New
> 
> 
> > Hi, in the long run it doesn't matter if there is an operating system on
> the
> > computer you are installing Linux to.
> > You can use options in the Linux setup to remove Window's/dos partitions,
> > and create new ones if you need to. Which since you have never had Linux
> on
> > the computer you'll need to do that anyway to get rid of a Window's fat
> file
> > system if that is what you had on it last.
> > Obviously, the one you are going to use to read the install with will need
> a
> > screen reader of some kind, a terminal application, and at least dos or
> > window's.
> > If you are planning on using Fedora you'll want to read the Fedora
> > installation howto on the speakup web site. The only difference is that
> > you'll be doing it remotely via a serial connection rather than directly
> > using speakup.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: New
> >
> >
> > > Is this method assuming there is no operating system on the pc that will
> > > contain speakup or that something is installed?
> > > Sean
> >
> >
> >
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