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| stevej
| Subject: Redhat
I recommend you buy one of the cheap linux CDs from
www.cheapbytes.com. Try RedHat linux - its pretty easy to
install and the disk will only cost you a few $s.
stevej
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Fri Nov 5 16:23:58 1999
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| Mike
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Subject: Too tight!!!!
I'm too tight to pay for that, the idea of open linux is that it doesn't cost me anything!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 8 15:26:53 1999
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| stevej
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Subject: time = money
OK well try ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/
But it's about 500Mb which is a pretty big download and
you will have the problem of where to put it and how to
install off it. With a CD you just stick it in the drive
and follow Redhat's instructions...
If you know what you are doing you can do an ftp install
but if you're a novice I wouldn't recommend it.
Regards, stevej
Posted: Wed Nov 10 12:31:19 1999
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| Mike
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Subject: 500Mb???
Thanks for your support. 500Mb? is this right? even windows doesn't get that big! do i get anything thrown in with the OS? Why 500Mb?
Posted: Fri Nov 12 13:23:29 1999
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| stevej
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Subject: Kitchen sink
Yes, most (all?) distributions seem to put as much stuff as
they can in their distros... you might not have to install
all of it but at the outset it's hard to know what to leave out. At some stage packagers may split the applications from the OS. You can actually get distros that come on one floppy - see the mini-distributions category under distributions.
Then you only get a basic linux feature set though...
Hope this helps,
stevej
Posted: Fri Nov 12 13:56:10 1999
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| P.K.A
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Subject: cd-install
Steve it don't always work that way. My cd dies when linux gets to the "initializing cd" part. No, I don't think too much of this system yet.
Posted: Tue Jan 25 11:52:11 2000
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| Sharp
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Subject: Reply to: cd-install
This is kind of a dumb way of doing it but some distro's let you copy the cd to a lot of floppys. Also, install should work with a IDE drive.
Posted: Tue Mar 7 20:15:39 2000
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