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Author: JasonBrownvafudar@earthlink.net
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Subject: Debian
If you go to the plug meetings, there are two individuals who burn any
distro you want right there. They charge more than a $1, but LimuxMall
makes their money on the shipping/handling, so it is still more expensive
than the ones you can get at plug.

Jason Brown

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, "Mark D. Holbert" wrote:
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:42:54 -0700
> To: <>
> From: "Mark D. Holbert" <>
> Reply-To:
> Subject: Re: 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
> >
>
>
>
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