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  1. Sun Mar 19 19:12:16 PST 1995
  2.  
  3. Q: There are so many bootdisks! Which one should I use?
  4.  
  5. A: Here's a little table to help you decide. In each box, the best choice
  6.    will be at the top of the list. Other disks you might try if the recommended
  7.    choice doesn't work are preceded by a (*). If you can't install directly from
  8.    your CD-ROM, you might consider copying the disk directories onto your hard
  9.    drive on a DOS or HPFS partition and installing from there.
  10.  
  11.    -- Pat
  12.  
  13.  
  14. ------------\              Target hard drive type:
  15. Slackware    \       
  16. source on:    \      IDE                 SCSI             MFM
  17. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  18. Floppy:       | bare             | scsi             | xt
  19. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  20. Hard Drive:   | bare             | scsi             | xt
  21. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  22. SCSI CD-ROM:  | scsi             | scsi             |
  23. --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- 
  24. Mitsumi CD:   | mitsumi          | mitsumi          |
  25. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  26. Aztech,       | aztcd            | aztcd            |
  27. Orchid,       |                  |                  |
  28. Okano,        |                  |                  |
  29. Wearnes CD    |                  |                  |
  30. with interface|                  |                  |
  31. card:         |                  |                  |
  32. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  33. Sony CDU31a   | cdu31a           | cdu31a           |
  34. or CDU33a CD: | * old31a         | * old31a         |
  35. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  36. Soundblaster, | sbpcd            | sbpcd            |
  37. Panasonic,    |                  |                  |
  38. Kotobuki,     |                  |                  |
  39. Matsushita,   |                  |                  |
  40. TEAC-55A,     |                  |                  |
  41. & Lasermate   |                  |                  |
  42. CD-ROM:       |                  |                  |
  43. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  44. Sony 535/531  | cdu535           | cdu535           |
  45. CD-ROM:       |                  |                  |
  46. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  47. Most IDE/ATAPI| idecd            | idecd            |
  48. CD-ROMs:      |                  |                  |
  49. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  50. NFS:          | net              | scsinet1  (see   |
  51.               |                  | list 1 below)    |
  52.               |                  |                  |
  53.               |                  | scsinet2  (see   |
  54.               |                  | list 2 below)    |
  55. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  56. Tape:         | bare (for floppy | scsi             | xt (for floppy tape)
  57.               |       tape)      |                  |
  58.               | scsi (for SCSI   |                  |
  59.               |       tape)      |                  |
  60. --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
  61.  
  62. SCSI DRIVERS:
  63.  
  64. List 1:                              List 2:
  65. Adaptec 152x/1542/1740/274x/284x     Generic NCR5380
  66. Buslogic                             NCR 53c7,8xx
  67. EATA-DMA (DPT/NEC/AT&T)              Always IN2000
  68. Seagate ST-02                        Pro Audio Spectrum 16
  69. Future Domain TMC-8xx, 16xx          QLogic
  70.                                      Trantor T128/T128F/T228
  71.                                      Ultrastor
  72.                                      7000 FASST
  73.  
  74. Note: The 'scsi' disk and the disks with non-SCSI CD-ROM drivers contain all
  75. the SCSI drivers from both lists 1 and 2.  The 'scsinet1' and 'scsinet2' disks
  76. should really only be used to install via NFS.
  77.  
  78.