new distro

[jbstew32]

I have about 6 GB free on a ATA66 HD that is on a Promise IDE controller. Most distros dont detect it. I want to try out a new distro. Now, i am running Slack and FreeBSD and I want to try something else now. Maybe see how bad RH 7 is or how sweet Debian Woody is. What do you think? I have DSL and any version, stable or not is viable http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

I dont want LFS though....i dont have THAT much time.....maybe later http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[MrNewbie]

I did lfs in one night, well about 3-4 hours. Its not a HUGE task. Fun, but not huge.

[Harvey]

Mandrake7.2 will find your drive fine... but it's not all that fun to install.

boring actually.

[Letalis]

LFS does take time. You cant just time the installation of your base lfs system, youd have to add all the other stuff... Installing X, getting gnome to work e.g.
But its absolutely the best way to learn stuff.

[ph34r]

Yup, I'd lfs it. If you can't do that, then do a minimal install of Slack and build up from there.

[Craig McPherson]

Debian. Anything else is wasting your time.

[cotfessi]

i agree about debian... although you may need to create a UDMA66 rescue floppy to start.

I found that when the debian 2.2 CD auto-booted, it didn't check for UDMA66, it seemed to be a command line argument, the only way I got around this was to start from a rescue floppy that has UDMA66 support... check out the install guide chapter 5 here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html