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Geoff (megdd@alinga.newcastle.edu.au) spake thusly:
: I'm a convert to Linux after having installing a copy on a spare work
: machine, and now I'd like to put it on my home computer.  Apart from
: www.tesla.com.au , where else can you get CD distributions in Australia,
: specifically in Brisbane and Newcastle?  Can you buy it from computer
: stores?  bookshops?  Blokes in trenchcoats on street corners?

There are two major places which do mailorder - NetCraft at
http://www.netcraft.com.au in South Australia, and Leonard Chan at
http://www.zip.com.au/~lychan in Sydney - check them out.

: I'm also curious as to how to install once you have the CD's.  Do you copy
: files from one of the CD's to make boot floppies, or do you need to make the
: boot and install disks by downloading files from the net, and are the CD's
: merely copies of the net archives?

it all depends on which version you acquire. You basically have to make
boot and root disks - the requisite files are on the cdrom and on the net
and you basically follow the instructions that pop up on the screen. Also,
check the documentation such as the Installation-HOWTO which you can find
on ftp://sunsite.anu.edu.au/pub/linux/doc/HOWTO (I think that's it). Some
cdroms are of course merely copies of the net archives, but if you buy a 
distribution such as the trilinux set (Debian, RedHat, Slackware) or a
straight one such as RedHat5.0 or Debian 1.3.1 then I think you do get
some files which aren't normally available via the net.

good luck,
jcm
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