[ Thanks to robochan for this link.
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“Welcome to the first installment of a new series. During this
project, I’ll be installing several Linux distributions, running
them each for a week, and keeping a daily journal. I’m pretty
excited about this, especially since a machine was recently
purchased for this specific function. This is a pretty standard
machine that’s a few years old, and likely to be fairly typical of
someone’s first Linux machine. It’s not top of the line, but by no
means a slouch and should be able to run any Linux distribution
fairly comfortably. Please keep in mind that this series will show
my experiences only. Your mileage may vary. And now, on with the
show…“In preparation for this machine’s arrival, I’d downloaded boot
floppy and net driver images from the Fedora site a couple of days
prior, to do an FTP installation. The Fedora site has several
screenshots of their installer available. The boot floppy fired up
just fine, as did the driver disk. I input the necessary network
info for my LAN, then input the info for the online Fedora archive
and off we went–or so I thought…”