Carson, The pseduo-image-generator works fine under linux. The only time I tried to use it on Windows (at a friends' house), it did keep on dying for me as well and it was horribly slow. I tended to believe that this was confined to its operation on that platform.
You can always buy pre-stamped disks including Debian. I've, in the past, used linuxmall.com, which often sells them for somewhere around $2 per distro plus s/h (also can get FreeBSD, etc. there). People on this list have mentioned cheapbytes as another source. On your other questions, I'd stick with Debian if I were you and encourage you to consider the benefit of a separate partition for /usr/local (for your personally-compiled binaries). One of the best intro books to linux that I've ever seen is: LINUX, Second Edition: Installation, Configuration, and Use by Michael Kofler Explains concepts behind many key programs in a typical linux distro, outside of core linux: including emacs, vi, TeX, LaTeX, Gimp, Apache, etc... HTH, Daniel > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:32:43 -0500 > From: "Carson Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Questions i can't answer > > I have tried using the pseudo-image-generator to no avail. it never manages > to download everything, not to mention it takes forever. using different > mirrors does not seem to help. i've even diabled my firewall to help > facilitate it. > > Is there a location from which i can download the full, already built ISO? > > Also: What would the advantage of starting with SuSe be? Is it just simpler? > Thanks > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
