[olug] slackware help?

[George Neill]

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.

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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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