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Slackware 9.1
Name: bensewell007 Date: December 26, 2003 at 17:44:29 Pacific OS: nothing CPU/Ram: p3
Comment:
how do you make the bootdisks for a unpartitioned brand new drive? I don't have a machine that boots CDs. I burnt Disk 1 and disk 2 of Slackware 9.1. what is this about rootdisks also?
Name: taurus Date: December 26, 2003 at 18:26:16 Pacific
Reply:
I believe on the first CD, there should be many folders but there are two that you want: boot & utils (or something close to those). In boot, you will find boot images so choose the one that's closest to your system (there should be either README or INSTALL to tell you which image is for what system!). You need to use "rawrite" in probably utils directory to write that image onto a floppy disk. If you look at the Slackware's site, www.slackware.com, there should be an instruction on showing you how to create a bootable disk and install it on your machine!
taurus
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Response Number 2
Name: bensewell007 Date: December 29, 2003 at 07:49:13 Pacific
Reply:
ok now setup is hanging while copying the files. THis has happened 3 times. It has found the CD-ROM but I have no idea why it hangs.:-/ THe machine where I'm trying to install slackware has pentium 133MHz, 32MB RAM, 8.6GB hard drive. Is there another type of linux apart from redhat that offers a command line interface and a GUIU (prebebly KDE)?
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