[SLUG] Slackware

[Jamie Adams]

Hi Phil,

I usually keep all my Linux Format mags but I seem to be missing the 
September 2002 edition which the disk came with.

The slackware homepage gives says that you need the Boot disk, which 
you already have and _1_ of 5 different root disks depending on your 
hardware.

As far as I can work out color.gz is an image for just one floppy and 
it contains the install program in color. You can create it in the same 
way you created the boot disk, ie,

'dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0'

If you are creating the disk from Windows you need the RAWRITE utility 
which the website says you should have on the CD somewhere.

All of this is on the Slackware website at: 
http://www.slackware.com/install/rootdisk.php

Hope this helps.

Jamie

On 2003.02.21 19:32 Phil Kershaw wrote:
> Thanks to Gav for Tuesday's meeting. I think we all learnt something
> useful.
> 
> Now another problem!
> 
> Is there anyone who has installed slackware that could possibly help
> me. I
> am trying to install slackware 8.1 from a mag cover cd onto a low spec
> machine that does not boot from cd. I have managed to create a boot
> disk but
> can not for the life of me manage to create the 5 root disks that you
> need.
> All searches on the net simply say download color.gz, which is the
> install
> program. There is a readme on the disk that explains how to create an
> iso
> for a bootable cd but this does not help.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
>