HI,
I think if someone want to install from floppies it means he has not a
CD and/or the download speed from ftp is very slow.
Maybe that person can go to a friend and copy the distribution making
volumes of 1.44M and transporting home with floppies.
Then remaking the original files on his hard-disk and installing from
hard.It is a problem with the name of the files.Windows or DOs will
change the name "file.tar.gz" to "file_tar.gz. But the base of the
distribution has filenames supported by dos. And once the base installed
the other files can be coppied on the linux partition and then change
the file name to the original file name.
I did so, many times and it worked fine.
If someone does not like RedHat because is to Winowish I recommand to go
to Debian who is totally free. But it is also a KDE for Debian and a
system
of packages.
As the discussion went so far, I say that the resemblance with Windows
is not the (only) reason some people preffer RedHat. I like RedHat
because it does not make a filosofy of installing programmes. There are
more important things you can spent time and energy in Linux. And maybe
some people like nice shows, and RedHat with KDE is a nice show of
colors and windows.
And KDE people are nice because they made for free distributions in tgz.
rpm. dpkg. for all kind of Linux. And Microsoft is far from such nice
works.
Cristian Carnutu
