Sorry so long in getting back to this thread, but I guess it's time to stop
lurking...For those of us who have slow or unreliable internet connections I
have found that you can pick up most of the distros at the Linuxmall for
about $1 a piece.  I know they might not be the lastest and greatest but I
did pick up Red Hat 6.2, Debian 2.1 and Slackware 7.0 for about $9 including
shiping.  Just look for the "Penguin Power" CD's.

Mark Holbert

>you can install right off the net with 5 floppy disks.  I have never done a
>cd install of debian.  dowload the rescue and root floppy images and the
>3 drivers disks.  You can even set it up to dial up and download
base.tar.gz
>and install it and then just dselect from there to get everything else.  Of
>course this takes a lot of time over dialup (about 6 hours on my last
install)
>just make sure you only pick what you need.  If you are useing your system
>and find you are missing something debian makes it so easy to install it
when
>you need it with just an apt-get install needed-package <enter> and bam
there
>you have it.
>
>Bill Warner
>