[Sussex] Lappy 'n linux

[Jon Fautley]

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Geoff Teale wrote:

> Tom wrote:
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> > heyho SLUG's,
>
> My word, we have a dwarf in our midst!  Heyho, heyho, it's off to Horsham we
> go.. :)

It's ironic actually, he does somewhat resemble a dwarf ;)

Was there ever a ginger dwarf? ;)

> What you need is ZipSlack!  I know we have a Slackware freak somewhere on
> this list, I know it is possible to build a slackware box by first
> installing ZipSlack - check out http://www.slackware.org for details.

*cough* Hardly freaks :p

I've done this before, but not with ZipSlack!
I hacked apart one of the bootdisks for slackware, and pulled out the
kernel and initrd, stuck them on a DOS system disk, and a copy of loadlin.
Took 5 or 6 attempts to get it to read the disk (FDD was fux0red) but
eventually, i managed to get loadlin fired up... the kernel loaded... and
*bam* the slackware install program appeared on the screen :)

I don't see any reason why you couldn't keep the files on the lappy and do
it that way, you'd need a PCMCIA NIC as iirc Slack install doesn't support
WiFi cards, and you'd need to find a copy of loadlin for windows 2000
(does such a beast exist?)

Once you've got the setup program loaded, it's plain sailing...

Jon
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