As the first step to my first truely functioning linux box (I had messed around with slack and earlier versions of the red hat distro before, but somehow the install (especially X) was always corrupted) I decided I was going to download. At some point I may purchase a copy of redhat just for the paper edition of their manual, but for now I am settling for a download.

I looked on the fresh rpms site http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html for a good download site. After trying several mirrors and finding them too cloged to even give an ls, I finally tried redhat.newaol.com ftp://redhat.newaol.com/redhat/linux/8.0/ which worked great.

Then after several days of antagonizing download, I finally had the distros. btw I used a demo copy of WSFTP on a Windows NT station to accomplish this, I can't say I'd recommend using the command prompt FTP unless you had a lot of time to waste.

The only fly in my ointment is that my (early) version of Nero burning rom wouldn't recognize the ISO (file format for cd images). After some addtional effor to transport the ISOs to work (sneaker net with a one gig removable drive) a latter version of CD Creator recognized and burned the ISOs to disk for me.

Next time, Installation.

I ran across this journal last week and decided that I would docment my toying with Free software here since it seemed like as good a place as any.

I think that they only thing that might make this anoying from my perspective is the lack of ability to Href or Image screen captures to illustrate what's up.

First entry on topic tommorrow, we'll see how it goes.