What discs do I need?

dustin_wielenga · 12-18-2004, 02:15 PM

I'm going to buy some Slackware CDs. I've seen 4 at the Slack Store and other sites have only two. Is there anything important on the other two extras? Thanks.

tw001_tw · 12-18-2004, 02:23 PM

Disk 1 & 2 are the install CD's.

3 & 4 are source code, manuals, extra packages, zipslack & old packages.

Tinkster · 12-18-2004, 02:25 PM

Define need :)

You get a complete Slackware up & running with
disks 1 & 2 ... disk 3 and 4 contain a few extras
and the sources.

You really should buy the boxed 4 CD set from
the slackware site if you want to support Volker,
the others just sell a burn of the downloaded ISOs
for disk 1 and 2.

Cheers,
Tink

dustin_wielenga · 12-18-2004, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tw001_tw
Disk 1 & 2 are the install CD's.

3 & 4 are source code, manuals, extra packages, zipslack & old packages.

Can I get manuals somewhere else? And, what do you mean by extra packages? Will things like OpenOffice.org be on the main disks? I'm a beginner so I don't think I need source code.

killerbob · 12-18-2004, 03:14 PM

OpenOffice isn't on the first two discs, but there is productivity software included in them.

All you need are the first two discs. Anything else can be downloaded. (why download a 650mb ISO so you can gain access to a 75mb file?)

dustin_wielenga · 12-18-2004, 03:16 PM

I'm buying the discs from cheapiso.com I have OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 .tar or something but will that work? Is it easy to install this?

slakmagik · 12-18-2004, 03:24 PM

Can't think why it wouldn't, though you could download the latest unless dialup is an issue or something. Just untar it and run setup or install or whatever. Piece of cake.