Linux resources
---------------

The  files in the /linux directory of this CD are for Linux systems only.
There are five subdirectories:

    boot144  -- Linux boot disks for 3.5" (1.44M) floppy disks
    boot12   -- Linux boot disks for 5.25" (1.2M) floppy disks
    root     -- Linux root disks (all formats)
    dosutils -- Utilities for use under DOS (fips.exe, rawrite.exe, gzip.exe
                and restorrb.exe)
    packages -- Some extra useful packages not supplied as part of the
                standard distribution

The boot144, boot12 and root directories are used to create the floppies
you need to install Linux on your system.  These correspond to the normal
bootdsks.144, bootdsks.12 and rootdsks directories in the standard Slackware
distribution.  Note that the rootdisks referenced by the rootdisk creation
page have been renamed from *.GZ to *.I, so that .gz files downloaded across
the net won't automatically get written to a floppy.

The dosutils directory contains DOS tools for preparing your system for
installation.

The packages directory contains the following files:

    dms080a.tgz  -- a DOS file system (version 0.8.0a) that can handle
                    drives compressed using DoubleSpace or DriveSpace
    demu0662.tgz -- DOSEMU, the DOS emulator for Linux (version 0.66.2)
    gnat309.tgz  -- the GNAT Ada 95 compiler (version 3.09)
    wn970629.tgz -- Wine, a Windows emulator (ALPHA version, released
                    29 Jun 1996)
    fat32pat.gz  -- a patch for the 2.0.29 kernel (the one provided in
                    the Slackware distribution on this CD) to handle
                    Microsoft's new FAT32 file system for large hard
                    disks

To install these, copy them to your hard disk, gunzip them and then untar
them (except for fat32pat.gz, which only requires gunzipping).  For example:

    gunzip gnat309.tgz; tar xvf gnat309.tar

or alternatively:

    zcat gnat309.tgz | tar xvf -

Once you've done this, read the documentation included in the package
for further instructions.