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Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: billy_gates on 11 September 2003, 06:03
I was wanting to try slackware (to see what everyone raves about)  I was looking at the Install Help (http://www.slackware.com/install/) and In the selecting a boot disc section.  It says I need a floppy to boot Slackware... Is this true?  Doesn't slack have grub or lilo or something similar.  I ask this because I do not have a floppy drive in my PC.  So is there any way I can install slack without the boot floppy?
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: insomnia on 11 September 2003, 06:25
quote:
Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
I was wanting to try slackware (to see what everyone raves about)  I was looking at the Install Help (http://www.slackware.com/install/) and In the selecting a boot disc section.  It says I need a floppy to boot Slackware... Is this true?  Doesn't slack have grub or lilo or something similar.  I ask this because I do not have a floppy drive in my PC.  So is there any way I can install slack without the boot floppy?


Pick a mirror:
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ (http://www.slackware.com/getslack/)
Choose Slackware-9.0-iso
Burn Slackware-9.0-install.iso on a rom.
Boot it.
(This is the easiest way.)
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: billy_gates on 11 September 2003, 21:43
quote:
Originally posted by insomnia:


Pick a mirror:
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ (http://www.slackware.com/getslack/)
Choose Slackware-9.0-iso
Burn Slackware-9.0-install.iso on a rom.
Boot it.
(This is the easiest way.)



oh... so that boot disc was meant only for the installation... not the actual OS.  Cus I had already downloaded and burned that iso.  But I didn't want to install it if it was going to ask me to make a boot disk... cus I wouldn't be able to make one.


THX for the clarification
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: billy_gates on 11 September 2003, 18:48
oh... one more thing... is slackware only 1 cd.  Is it not full of all that stupid bloatware like RH and SuSE are?  I was tired of clicking install all and it would take like 5gb on my HD.  But then if I didn't click install all it seemed I couldn't properly compile and build stuff.  If slack is indeed only 1 cd then I can click on install everything.  It won't take 5gb and I should be able to compile and build everything.  I have a good feeling about this one.
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: Refalm on 11 September 2003, 19:05
Mandrake took me only 700 MB. It's installed everything I needed (except for CVS, which I can't manually install).
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: insomnia on 11 September 2003, 19:25
quote:
Originally posted by Refalm:
Mandrake took me only 700 MB. It's installed everything I needed (except for CVS, which I can't manually install).


Nice, but not as impressive as this:

Minimum system requirements needed to install and run Slackware:

    * 386 processor
    * 16MB RAM
    * 50 megabytes of hard disk space
    * 3.5" floppy drive
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: Master of Reality on 12 September 2003, 03:12
full install of slackware is almost 2GB.
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: insomnia on 12 September 2003, 03:25
quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
full install of slackware is almost 2GB.


Yep, but installing Slackware on a very small hard drive is much easier than with other distro's. I've always liked this distro and still use it(mostly for testing...).
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: Faust on 12 September 2003, 04:44
Debian...  Default install is 250 meg and you have around 10,000 programs to install from.  Not to mention the massive amount of care and quality put into it.
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: TheQuirk on 12 September 2003, 06:08
quote:
Originally posted by insomnia:


Nice, but not as impressive as this:

Minimum system requirements needed to install and run Slackware:

    * 386 processor
    * 16MB RAM
    * 50 megabytes of hard disk space
    * 3.5" floppy drive


That's funny, because Slackware 9.0 is not even compiled for i386.
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: insomnia on 12 September 2003, 06:49
quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk:
That's funny, because Slackware 9.0 is not even compiled for i386.

Holy shit, please inform patrick about this, he doesn't know this himself:
http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php (http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php)

PS: Slackware placed all the non i386 stuff in the dir. "current" and not in the 9.0 dir.   (http://smile.gif)

[ September 11, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]

Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: TheQuirk on 12 September 2003, 07:15
quote:
Originally posted by insomnia:

Holy shit, please inform patrick about this, he doesn't know this himself:
http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php (http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php)

PS: Slackware placed all the non i386 stuff in the dir. "current" and not in the 9.0 dir.    (http://smile.gif)  

[ September 11, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]


Official ISOs and CDs are not compiled for 386. The fact that some page wasn't updated for a long amount of time (did you take a look at the install book?) doesn't mean it's not true.
Title: Slackware Boot Disk
Post by: insomnia on 12 September 2003, 07:23
quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk:
did you take a look at the install book

Yes. It sais:
*current: i486
*9.0: i386
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