[olug] slackware help?

[Jonathan Warren]

I beleive only the first two are required for a normal install.  Still booting from cd is very easy if at all possible.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:34:29PM -0600, George Neill wrote:
> LOL :)  It has been a while since I have installed Slack.  It used to have
> one root disk called 'color.gz' which had been less than 1.4 M ... not
> true anymore ...  Anyhow, from the README.txt
> 
> ""
> 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
> 5 floppy images, and you'll need all five of them.  The reason for this is
> that the size of the installer image after compression has exceeded 1.44MB,
> and the kernel can either load a compressed rootdisk image, or an
> uncompressed
> one that spans multiple floppy images.
> 
> .
> .
> .
> 
> 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
> ""
> 
> Hope this helps!
> George.
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >  Cute. How do you get a 2286k file on a floppy?
> >
> >
> >   I did find the five disk set of color.gz in uncompressed form ... but
> > please do answer my question :-)
> >
> >
> > George Neill wrote:
> >
> >> The root disk is called 'color.gz', grab that and dd' it do a fd.
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/rootdisks/color.gz
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   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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