Slackware 8.1

[Myles Green]

On June 24, 2002 10:56 pm, stayler wrote:
> Apparently,
>
> The bootdisks and rootdisks provided by slack are no longer "image"
> files, ie you use dd to creat them.  They require some serious
> machinations to work.  I have a friend who is having a serious time
> with this issue....

huh? dd if=bare.i of=/dev/fd0 does the boot floppy and 
dd if=install.1 of=/dev/fd0 (repeated for each of five disks) does the 5 
'root' disks. Yes, it's slow, but it 'just works'. Don't fret about the 
"bs=" or "count=" flags for dd, just use GOOD floppies and the above 
incantations. "It Worked For Me (tm)"

> stayler
>
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:57:37 -0600, Collins wrote:
> >A second reply.
> >
> >I don't have a clue what you're driving at.  The basic installer for
> >Slack hasn't changed much in a coon's age.  It's been about 5 years
> >since I put up Slackware, and it looks just the same now as it
> > always did.  A few more features like dhcp and the network script,
> > but that's about it.  Slack is Slack.
>
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