7.1 is good enough (or I haven't been compelled to upgrade past it). the -current branch is ok to work with, just consider that with slackware there is no easy upgrade path so maybe it is less optimal to be in a between state. Of course, the first thing I do on installing slack is upgrade all sorts of stuff like binutils, other kernel related stuff. As for ftp... it's not in the gold distro. Perhaps someone has hacked the installer to do that but you'd have to get it separately. Of course, Debian has felt slackish to me and has the uber-nifty apt utility. Disclosure requires me to say that I've since switched back to slack 7.1 and openbsd (which has a nice distro upgrade tool). Josh ___SIG___ On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I've decided to finally give Slackware a try (about 5 years after hearing > about it...). > I have a 486 w/12MB of RAM and will probably end up with a 340MB HDD. I want > to set it up as a web server. (before you all shout out that 'you need more > memory than that!'; remember what it used to be like, before memory was > cheap.. it's not going to be a high-performance box, and I don't care.) > > is there any way to install Slackware via FTP? the only install methods I > see are floppy, CD, and NFS. > > also, should I grab the latest slackware-current stuff; or is 7.1 good > enough for the moment? > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >