🚀 go-pugleaf

Go to Linux Mall or some other mail order site and you can get a copy of
several
different distributions of Linux for $1.95 per CD.  I purchased SuSe, COL2.2,
Redhat 6.0, and Mandrake 6.0 ...

mtnguy

> I want to try to install Linux for free. Really free! I keep hearing that it
> is free, yet you have to purchase a $10 to $29.95 to $49.95 CD-ROM. I know
> nothing of Linux. I am grudgingly running Windows98. Is there a web page for
> dummies who want to take advantage of all this free "Linux" stuff on the
> Internet; and install it for absolutely "free". A web page for Linux Dummies
> so to speak. Or Linux, from start to finish for the unskilled and really
> financially challenged. What files do I need to download? Is Linux one big
> EXE that I can install from Windows Explorer? I have no idea. Currently I
> have an 8 GB HD that is formatted into two FAT32 partitions. One 2 GB
> Windows98 partition and the other  is a 6 GB WinData partition. I will get a
> "free" hard drive from some where. What is the minimal HD size recommended
> for the operating system, a cute GUI front-end, a few GUI themes, networking
> dialer capabilities, email, web browsing, etc.? Do you the reader see where
> this is going? I have browsed a few web pages and have basically said, huh!
> I do not and will not reformat my hard drive to do this. Other hard ware
> that I am using are PII 400 o/c 448, 64 MB SDRAM PC100, external SCSI Zip
> 100, Pioneer CD-ROM 24x, Creative Labs Riva TNT 1 and an IWill BS100
> (SCSI/IDE/PCI) motherboard.
>
> Well that ends my long winded soliloquy!
>
> Thanks

mtnguy <mtnguy@uswestmail.net> wrote in article
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> Go to Linux Mall or some other mail order site and you can get a copy of
> several
> different distributions of Linux for $1.95 per CD.  I purchased SuSe,
COL2.2,
> Redhat 6.0, and Mandrake 6.0 ...

   Still not free. :-)  Most distributions have a boot disk you can
download for FTP installs, but this is over a LAN, not a modem.  You can
also download the entire distribution, but you are talking about over 600
meg in most cases.  :-)  $2 plus shipping is cheap, but free is available.

			Lee
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necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
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