Exelent point Chuck. While we're on the subject of books, try out the following site if you want to get some good information about Linux: http://www.tldp.org this site contains howtos, guides, and just about any other sort of documentation about Linux you might want. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Also, the 3rd CD contains a book about Slackware which you can > access with Lynx. I have copied all four of my CD's to my HD, and > I access that book with a command like this: > > lynx file://localhost/zip/cd3/slackware-book/Slack8Book.html > > It won't teach you Linux, but it answers most Slackware > questions. > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (89% of Full) > In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. > My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iQCVAwUBQCd4bjVdG8M9x9tGAQIPzwP9G7Pfiv9Jcw9Q7rTx1beWX1pKPuoPWeGl > Eg9seqNAaxdQ77XSiPpuOYoLQAtGXIkjSPC8URZHJBGiYr15SjUM+YD5TcTbzIsv > DEwmUeKz8TICT84nmPPyQ/VQwf2TLKtC8UvpYZQDRGKH+zeR4AeSXJiG4V0/CuJY > VxMBSqVQQZ4= > =znAu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
