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- These are root-install disks for Slackware 3.5 (version 3.5.0)
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- You will need one of these disks to install Linux. The disk is created by
- writing the image out with RAWRITE.EXE under DOS. For example, to make the
- color.gz rootdisk, you'd put a formatted floppy in your floppy drive, and then
- run this command:
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- C:\> RAWRITE COLOR.GZ A:
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- Normally you do not need to decompress these disks -- the kernel will do that as
- it loads them. The disk images must be written to 1.44MB floppies. Note
- that if you plan to mount the rootdisk instead of loading it into a ramdisk
- (using the method outlined in LOWMEM.TXT for machines with only 4MB) then you
- must use one of the smaller "obsolete" images, and must decompress the image
- with GZIP.EXE before writing it out to a floppy.
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- Here's a description of the choices:
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- color.gz: A root-install disk using an easy-to-use new full-screen color
- install program. NOTE: This version of the install system is not forgiving of
- extra keystrokes entered between screens, so type carefully.
-
- pcmcia.gz: A version of the color install disk designed for installing to a
- laptop using a PCMCIA ethernet or scsi card.
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- umsdos.gz: A version of the color install disk using UMSDOS - a filesystem
- that allows you to install Linux into a directory on an existing MS-DOS
- partition. Not as fast as ext2 or xiafs, but it works, and you don't have to
- repartition your drive. [NOTE: If you want to use UMSDOS, you might want to
- consider using the ZipSlack installation found in the /zipslack directory.
- This is a little easier way to get started -- just unzip a file on your DOS
- partition to install Linux. ]
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- There's also this non-installation rootdisk:
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- rescue.gz: This is a rescue disk for Linux. It is a reasonably complete
- mini-Linux system running from a four megabyte ramdisk.
- It contains an editor (vi), lilo, and other utilities useful for
- fixing your Linux machine if you ever get locked out for some
- reason. It's built with libraries and utilities from Slackware
- 3.5, and includes basic TCP/IP utilities such as ping, telnet,
- and ftp.
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