Skip you can grab the ISOs at linuxiso.org. It is fairly fast server. Also
see if you can find the slackware book for download or download each
section at the slackware website. Make sure the hardware you are wanting to
use is supported by the recent kernels. Or better yet, buy a book. Its not
really a hard OS to get up and running once you get used to things.

John
"Skip Hollowell" <skip_hollowell'at'yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Slackware, and have been doing the legwork for the last couple
> of weeks trying to decide what I need. I am building a PVR (probably
> FreeVo, record TV, play my MP3's on the stereo, have boring slide shows of
> our whole digital picture album, etc) on an AMD XP2500+ box, and have
> decided against Red Hat (although easy to install) because it is a pig of
> a
> system. From all that I have read, this is the distro to be on, for
> cleanliness, and for system resource management (very un-piggish).
>
> So what exactly do I need to download to get started? I have look at the
> download site, and everything is in packages. Is this an a-la-carte kinda
> install, where I just pick and choose what I may need, and then build the
> ISO and burn away to create my own install disks? Do I HAVE to have a
> boot
> floppy? I think I saw that I can out the booter right on the CD, but the
> doc was a bit shy in this area. This is definitely not a beginner's
> Linux.
>
> Tips? Tricks. Warnings?