New to Linux

Dennis Calhoun dcalhoun at blomand.net
Sat Jul 3 23:42:07 UTC 2004


In addition to the info that others have already provide....
Concerning the difference in the number of installation CDs between
various distros of Linux....
Note that with SuSe Linux, the "one CD" for installation can be a bit
misleading. In fact, it is only the *first* CD and there is a total of
about 7GB of data in the "current" directory on the SuSe site (and
it's mirrors) for an actual full install to have to pull data from.
The first CD just gets things going, the rest comes from an FTP
repository, which is a royal pain if one doesn't have a fast
connection.

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Dennis C.





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