[ale] New at this

[Keith Hopkins]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> George -
> 
> Not sure what you were looking at (Slackware??) but I'd recommend this 
> instead:
> 
> If you have a CD burner (any OS, Windows is OK), download the ISO files 
> from one of the distro sites or wherever.
> 
> If you don't have a CD burner or if you have a CD-ROM drive that doesn't 
> work well with burnt CDs, you can order inexpensive CDs from 
> www.cheapbytes.com.
> 
> If you are willing to go the Debian route, you can actually burn a few 
> floppies and yank the rest of the distro over the Internet.
> 
> If you go the Gentoo route, you burn a small CD-R, boot to it, and the 
> rest comes over the Internet.
> 


CDs?  Who needs CDs?  You can create a (1) bootdisk and (1) network modules FLOPPY disks for SuSE and install it over the net.  Ok, so it takes about 3 hrs for a KDE2 install using ADSL.  I'm sure you can do the same with Debian, and possibly RedHat/Mandrake too.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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