Tell me your postal address, may be I can burn a copy of slink, and send it to you. Now that I have my xcdroast working... By the way, QUESTION: A copy made through xcdroast of the official distribution, is it fully a real image copy, fully functional?
Chirag wrote: > Dear debian user, > > I am a Linux newbie in India where the only viable method of > obtaining Linux is throgh cheap CDs that computer magazines > give along with their mag. I don't know why but so far they > haven't gone for any thing beyond RedHat with most of them > concentrating on Windows flavoured ones like lnx4win and WinLinux. > > So hardcore distributions like Debian is not at all available thanks > to very good ppp connections provided by the state owned > ISP monopoly. > > Right now I have RedHat 6.0, Red Hat 6.1 and Linux Mandrake 6.0 > installations on my hard disk and I very much like to try something like > Debian. > > I think I can do this with help from you. I hope Debian does have > a minimum X less distribution and have split it to pieces of 1.44 MB sizes > so people can attempt a floppy installation. If one of you can email me > a piece daily, wthin a month I and my friends will have a Debian on our > systems. > > Slackware does have such a thing in the name splitslack which is > 25 pieces of 1.44MB each. But so far I could only download 4 of > them thanks to frequent connection droppings by the ISP. But > if it is by e-mail then what I download is at the local server and not in > U.S.A and so I can get much faster data rates Also I can get to the > mail account on a different tel no which is much quieter than > the TCP/IP one. > > Hoping that you will consider this request sympathetically. > > Faithfully > > Previ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
