Re: Distro advise

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:35:04 +1200, Tim Buchanan wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:

There are even more options than this if you have current network
connectivity and know what you're doing. You can boot slackware with a
floppy, etc. I'll just stop right here for now.

Cheers for all the replies!

System has 96mb ram, current os is debian but im having difficulties and
im keen to try a new distro. Yes I have networking working with internet
(unfortunately only dialup but plan on getting dsl soonish). I would be
interested in installing slackware, could you point me to to any docs
etc? i thought there was only the .iso download and zipslack?

Cheers
TTB

96MB is enough for Slackware. I don't know about X with the horsepower on
that CPU, though. XFCE is a minimalist window manager which might work.
This computer could function best as an "appliance" (fax machine, router,
dialin gateway, etc) or a file server like a file server where X is not
required.

Setup is complicated because of no CDROM, but there have been a couple of
recent threads which had some good ideas. I'll link here to what I wrote
(there are other entries on the threads also).

This is the simplest option (according to me) without the cdrom:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/7d128facee780cbe

This has the added complication of wanting to do a network install without
the cdrom:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/d069d997da74ac8a

This is an impressive recent online book which adds to the documentation
for slackware by Daniël de Kok:
http://www.slackbasics.org/html/slackware-basics.html

The official documentation is at the website:
http://www.slackware.com/

IMO, the linked book is more up to date.

--
Douglas Mayne
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Relevant Pages

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