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Author: Mark D. Holbert
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Subject: Debian
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
>