paintballdude13 — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:41:01 +0000

Ok I fixed it now, I got it downloaded, the first cd anyways. I can download the rest later. Gotta wait till dad gets home tommorw though to install and crap cause he isnt home and I dont know what he wants backed up.

paintballdude13 — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:02:11 +0000

Hmm well I've tried several times getting them, they all day Done when there like half way done, and I cant resume them using Opera. This is ticking me off.

mairving — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:47:57 +0000

Real men use Slack. I tend to prefer Slackware but only cause I am used to it. It doesn't have the pretty installers like the other ones and you have to do your own Fdisk. Mandrake is definitely a good first choice.

paintballdude13 — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:29:45 +0000

Ok thanks, right now I'm downloading all 3cds getting about 130k total over all 3 files. I'll burn them later and see about installing them on my other comp. How do you recommend installing it?

Mark Hensler — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:45:18 +0000

I'm a fan of Mandrake. http://www.mandrakelinux.com I found the install to be fairly easy. It's similar to RedHat, but I found that the RPM manager in Mandrake 8.0 to be easier to use than the one in RedHat 7.0. Lots of mirrors on mandrake.

Also, if your having download problems, I would recommend getting Download Accelerator Plus. I've got the free version. It can download things faster by opening the file in multiple streams. That alone is nice, but it also supports resume.