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- Installation notes for Slackware Linux 2.2.0.
-
- A more detailed description of the installation process may be found in the
- "Installation-HOWTO", by Matt Welsh.
-
- Note: If you are installing from a 5.25" boot drive, you might want to read the
- file "INS_1_2.MEG" as well as this one.
-
- INSTALLATION DISKS:
-
- You will need installation disks: a "bootkernel" disk and a "root/install" disk.
-
- To make your bootkernel/rootdisk combination, you'll have to get a boot kernel
- and root disk. Bootkernels are in the bootdsks.12 (for 1.2 meg drives) and
- bootdsks.144 (for 1.44 meg drives). Rootdisks are in rootdsks.12 (for 1.2
- meg drives) and rootdsks.144 (for 1.44 meg drives). Use 'dd' or RAWRITE.EXE
- to write them to floppies.
-
- NOTE: When using dd to create the boot kernel disk or root disk on Suns and
- possibly some other Unix workstations you must provide an appropriate block
- size. This probably wouldn't hurt on other systems, either. Here's an
- example:
-
- dd if=scsinet of=/dev/(rdf0, rdf0c, fd0, or whatever) obs=18k
-
- DISK SETS
-
- Once you've made your boot and install disks, you'll need to make the disk sets
- you wish to install on MS-DOS formatted floppies. The A disks will fit on 1.2 MB
- or 1.44 MB disks, but all other disk sets require 1.44 MB disks (if you're
- installing from floppy, of course).
-
- These are the disk sets that are available to install:
-
- A - Base Linux system
- AP - Various applications that do not need X
- D - Program Development (C, C++, Kernel source, Lisp, Perl, etc.)
- E - GNU Emacs
- F - FAQ lists
- I - Info pages.
- IV - Interviews: libraries, include files, Doc and Idraw apps for X
- N - Networking (TCP/IP, UUCP, Mail)
- OOP - Object Oriented Programming (GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1)
- Also includes the Smalltalk Interface to X11.
- Q - All kinds of extra kernels
- T - TeX
- TCL - Tcl/Tk/TclX, Tcl language, and Tk toolkit for developing X apps
- More development packages to work with Tcl have also been added,
- as well as David Engel's Linux port with shared libraries.
- X - XFree86 X Window System
- XAP - Applications for X
- XD - XFree86 X server development system, PEX extensions, and man
- pages for X programming.
- XV - XView. (OpenLook[TM] [virtual] Window Manager, apps)
- Y - Games (that do not require X)
-
- For each disk, make an MS-DOS format disk and copy the proper files to it.
- The "00index.txt" files are added by the FTP server. You don't need those.
- If you're using NFS or hard drive installation, just set up a directory with
- the disk subdirectories for the disk sets you want. You'll only have to make
- the boot and root floppies in that case.
-
- Make sure you have a blank, formatted floppy ready to make your Linux boot
- disk at the end of the installation.
-
- [NOTE]: You may install most software packages by typing "setup" on a
- running system. If you reinstall the A series, or the Q series (which
- replaces your kernel), be sure to run LILO or make a new boot disk using the
- rescue disk. Also, if you reinstall some of the base packages you might need
- to reconfigure files in /etc or other places.
-
- Your packages are listed in /var/adm/packages. Any of these packages may be
- removed or reinstalled using "pkgtool".
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Patrick Volkerding
- volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
- volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
-