[olug] slackware help?

[Jonathan Warren]

yeah you need to make it.  If at all possible just boot fromt he cd it does it all.  Did you download an iso?  Anyway there is a rootdisk directory.
slackware-current/rootdisks

<snip>
If you are unable to boot the Slackware installation CD directly, you'll
need create these floppy disks in order to load the installer.  In the past,
there's only been one rootdisk floppy called "color.gz", but now there are
2 floppy images (install.1 and install.2), and you'll need both of them.
</snip>

I am attaching readme as well

-Jon W.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:40:05PM -0600, neal r wrote:
> 
> 
>   I came to the installfest with a small laptop and 80 meg drive and
> went away to try Trinux.org's distro again. After much frustration I'm
> just going to follow their lead and create my own Slackware based system
> to do what I need (wireless monitoring using http://www.soekris.com
> machines).
> 
> 
>   I've got 8.1 on CD and I made a boot disk using bare.i but now it
> wants a root disk and that is nowhere in sight - anyone know what the
> next step is?
> 
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These are root-install disks for Slackware 8.1.

If you are unable to boot the Slackware installation CD directly, you'll
need create these floppy disks in order to load the installer.  In the past,
there's only been one rootdisk floppy called "color.gz", but now there are
2 floppy images (install.1 and install.2), and you'll need both of them.

> Mini FAQ:
> Q.  But I just want something like the old color.gz that I can load
>     as an initrd from the hard drive with LILO, or syslinux, or loadlin.
>
> A.  I think what you're looking for is:  isolinux/initrd.img
>     This is a self contained, gzipped initrd like the old color.gz.

In addition to the install images, you'll also need a bootdisk.  See the
bootdisks directory for those.

To create a floppy disk from one of these images, use the RAWRITE command on
DOS or Windows.  For example, to make the first rootdisk image (install.1),
you'd put a formatted 1.44MB floppy in your floppy drive, and then run this
command:

C:\> RAWRITE INSTALL.1 A:

There are several versions of RAWRITE provided to handle most versions of DOS
and Windows.  If one version doesn't seem to work, try another.

To make the floppy images under Linux, use the "cat" command to send them to
the floppy device.  This command will make the first install disk:

cat install.1 > /dev/fd0

Here's a description of the disk images in this directory:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

install.1, install.2:  These are the Slackware installation disks, used
              to install Slackware Linux to its own partition.

              To load the installer from floppy disk, you'll need to write
              each to these to a floppy disk, and use a bootdisk to load them.

              NOTE: The 'dialog' program used by the install system is not
              forgiving of extra keystrokes entered between screens, so type
              carefully.  :-)

There are also these supplemental hardware support disk images, used in
conjunction with the disks above:

pcmcia.dsk    This supplemental disk provides support for laptop devices.  It
              allows installing through a network or CD-ROM drive card.  To
              use this disk to scan for PCMCIA devices (this is only done if
              you need to use them DURING the installation), you enter 'pcmcia'
              after loading the 'install' disks and logging in.

network.dsk   This supplemental disk provides support for ethernet cards. To
              use this disk to scan for network devices (this is only done if
              you need to use them DURING the installation), you enter 'network'
              after loading the 'install' disks and logging in.

And finally, there is a single "rescue" image, since we don't want to be
required to load two rootdisks every time we need to get a Linux prompt from
floppy disks to fix something:

rescue.dsk    This is a BusyBox-based rescue disk for Linux.  It is a
              reasonably complete mini-Linux system running from a four
              megabyte ramdisk, and contains an editor (vi), networking tools
              like ifconfig, route, telnet, ping, and wget, and other tools
              that might be handy for fixing your Linux machine if you ever
              get locked out for some reason, or any time you just need to
              boot Linux to "edit something quickly".