I still think that downloading and writing and using 6 floppies to install slackware is kinda a pain in the ass. What happend to two disks? ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk > I am also disappointed with some of the changes that were made in slackware 8.1. I too tried two slackware sites, and finally downloaded the install image in about 9 hours with a broadband connection. Usually, I can get full iso images in about 2 hours. > > I have a none-production machine which I've been planning to try redhat and debian on for a while. I think that I'll move to debian if slackware makes any other changes I do not like. > > For now, I think I'll continue running slackware 8.0 on my server until the hd dies or something, and upgrade to new packages as neded. > Greg > P.S., I found I was missing having gnu/linux on my windows only machine, so I split my vfat partition (since umsdos support was removed from slackware 8.1 (not a good change)), and installed slackware 8.1. I found that most of the new changes aren't as bad as I expected, but still ... > > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:19:05PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > I haven't looked at the root disks yet but I'm kinda disappointed that > > the other ISO images aren't available for download anymore. And > > furthermore, I've been to two different slackware sites and the > > transmission speeds are horrible! I have a broadband connection here > > and the one install ISO image is downloading at dial-up speeds! that > > sucks. > > > > I'm seriously thinking about maybe looking into Debian. I'll have to > > learn another distro and the layout of config files and all that > > but... > > > > Is it true the only way to get the other CD's is to buy them now? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
