Slackware 9.0

[Collins Richey]

OK, I've freed up a partition to experiment with this, but how do I
download and burn a CD?

The readme file on the Slack site suggests using mkisofs to do this and
has the complete mkisofs command, but how do you get there from here?
The readme says "get into the top level Slackware directory."  Does this
mean you have first to download and duplicate the complete directory
tree as it appears on the ftp site before you can do the mkisofs? 

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Collins