Hi, everything you need to start the Debian install is on the speakup sighe. Once you start the install, your system will contact the Debianservers to get what it needs. I think Debian has the best package management system, but I started with Debian. Kenny On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Rob DeZonia wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Have a couple questions. First is about Debian. When I go to > the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to > download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the > Debian ftp site to download any other files? > Now on to Slackware. First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within > the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware > tutorial. When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there > are about 25 subdirectories of files to download. Must I download > them all? That could be quite a job since the average speed has been > about 5K per second. lol > Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package > installer? Thanks for letting me ramble. I want my first Linux > install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions. > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup