[Sderby] Just trying out DSL and had to tell someone

[Mark Challener]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Barber" <patrick.barber at tiscali.co.uk>
To: "South Derby LUG General Mailing List" <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: [Sderby] Just trying out DSL and had to tell someone




>-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:53:35 -0800
>From: Mark <mark-challener at whippet89.freeserve.co.uk>
>To: sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Sderby] Just trying out DSL and had to tell someone
>Reply-To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>Hello,
> I'm between courses at the moment so I've had some time to try out
>Damn Small Linux.  Great fun.  Up and running in no time.  And under 50
MB.
>This is direct from sylpheed and I'm browing with dillo.
>
>I've also recently found Peanut 9.5 straightforward to install.  Approx
370
>MB.
>Peanut has KDE 3.1  and KOffice.
>
>I recently tried upgrading from Mandrake 8.1 to 9.2, but I think one of
my
>disks must be corrupt.  I'll reburn it when I have time.
>
>Can someone tell me how long it should take to install Debian 3.0 ?  It
always
>seems to take me most of six hours!
>
>All the best
> Mark   Running DSL tonight.
>
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Mark,
how much of Debian are you trying to install? I have had an install over
the internet in 20mins...ok so this was a minimum install, with Apache.


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<regards>
Patrick Barber
email: patrick.barber at tiscali.co.uk
irc Channel: irc.lug.org #sderby

Registered Linux User #332139

<thought>
Is the light at the end of the tunnel an on coming train
</thought>

</regards>

Patrick,
Its a double sided DVD from the Linux Emporium, with a Cd  binary update to
3.0 r1

I'll loan it out if anyone wants to borrow it.  I'm not sure when and where
I could meet to hand it over.

I was interested to see Solaris 2.8 in the lug library.  Is that freely
distributable or would I have to get a key from Sun?
I am trying it out at work this week on a sparc 30.  I've heard it is picky
about graphics cards?

Best Regards
    Mark



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