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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
