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- TAPE INSTALLATION ROOTDISK
-
- Here it is - a version of the install disk designed for installing Slackware
- from tape. I've tested on my Colorado Jumbo 250, but it should work for most
- floppy tape and SCSI tape drives. There's no reason it can't work for QIC-02
- as well, but I haven't compiled a QIC-02 capable bootkernel (yet).
-
- Any of the bootkernel disks will work for floppy tape support. If you're
- installing from a SCSI drive, make sure you use a bootkernel with SCSI support.
-
- The tape must be written in GNU tar format (or a compatible block size with some
- other 'tar' - anyone know what that would be?). Write all of the directories
- and files in the slakware/ directory onto the tape.
-
- This is the command that would write out the tape:
-
- cd slakware
- tar cv */*
-
- You may also need to specify the tape device:
-
- tar cvf /dev/nst0 */*
-
- The files and directories should be tarred onto the tape. You'll see the
- directories and filenames listed as they are written to the tape:
-
- a1/aaa_base.tgz
- a1/aoutlibs.tgz
- a1/bash.tgz
- a1/cpio.tgz
- a1/devs.tgz
- a1/diska1
- a1/etc.tgz
- a1/grep.tgz
- a1/maketag
- a1/maketag.ez
- a1/tagfile
- a1/tagfile.org
- a1/tagfile.pat
- a2/bin.tgz
- a2/diska2
- [ ... and so on ]
-
- Good luck, folks! This is pretty experimental still, so let me know how it
- works for you and if you have any suggestions for improvements.
-
- ---
- Patrick Volkerding
- volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
-