Steven wrote:
>http://linuxcentral.com
>http://www.cheapbytes.com
>
>Both of these places have $2 CDroms for Linux.
>They provide fast and reliable delivery worldwide.
Ah, but what about the shipping fee? And they sure can't beat the speed I
got the CDs in (I still haven't used them so that's not a good reason). And
this way some of my money went to a shop that only sells Linux stuff (CDs
and books) and the original publishers of SlackWare. I did have a job back
then (it's over now and I'm back in school - or not until tuesday actually
when I've got a test) so the money weren't that important.
I actually just visited the first site and it would cost me:
1.95 (CD) + 6.87 (shipping) + 15 (to get a money draft for a US bank, this
is what a friend told me the price was a while back) + 8.125 (fee for a
recomended snail mail to the US). That's around 32 USD, not much of a save
in my case. It might be better for others (people from the US for instance).
>> it runs rather well on low end machines. 486 is the
>> lowest I've tried,
>
>I've installed Slackware on a 386sx with 40meg IDE HDD.
The 486 SX2-66 I installed it on ran it much better than my K6-2 400 ran
the Red Hat installation. Agreed I did took more time to fiddle around with
the Slackware install but that installation utility was much nicer as well.
>Yes, it should work with an old s.l..o...w XT drive,
>but I've never tried it (and probably never will --
>those ancient drives just aren't worth it).
Well, I need to get the memmory card to work in that computer before i can
test something like that. 1MB is good enough for DOS (and no heavy apps),
but not for Linux.
>> I'm forced to install over the network so I'll learn
>> something else in the process as well :)
>
>Let me know if you have any problems. I've installed
>Slackware via NFS several times, so I'll probably be
>able to help you.
Thanks, I'll probably need to do it on the server (and thereby not move the
CD to that computer nor remove the HD.
>If it's an IDE CDrom drive, then the bare.i boot will
>work fine. Otherwise, you need to use the boot image
>that matches your CDrom drive (an appropriate one should
>be in the bootdisk directory).
Of course. But what do I need to set up for installing over the network (on
the computer that has a CD-ROM (the server in this case, it will be the
opposite as soon as the installation is finished)?
//Bernie
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