[olug] slackware help?

[neal r]

  The machine involved in the install is going to be named 'crudmuffin' ... give you an idea of what important BIOS
features might be missing on this vintage 1997 hardware??? :-)



Jonathan Warren wrote:

> 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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