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- Here's a full description of the installation options you have:
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- slakware: This option installs package files to your hard drive.
- This uses a lot of drive space, but offers the best
- performance. If you use this, you can still change
- any/all of your packages to run off your CD-ROM later
- by just installing the corresponding package from the
- /cdrom/link2cd directory.
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- The next three choices offer ways of running Slackware from the
- CD-ROM.
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- link2cd: This is the "deluxe" version. :^)
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- NOTE: This take a ***long*** time to install! If you
- just want to try the disk out without investing a whole
- day in setting things up, slaktest is probably a better
- option for you. Another option to seriously consider
- is installing a small system with the slakware option
- (run from HD) and then installing individual packages
- from /cdrom/link2cd later on.
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- This option replaces most of the files under /usr with
- links to the actual files on your CD-ROM. This saves
- a lot of space but retains nearly all of the
- flexibility -- you can compile the kernel source from
- the links in /usr/src/linux, for instance. Also, this
- option provides an easily upgradable system -- it has
- been designed to coexist with packages from the
- /cdrom/slakware directory. If you decide you want to
- run a package from your hard drive instead of the
- CD-ROM, just install the corresponding package from
- the /cdrom/slakware directory.
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- IMPORTANT!!! This option makes a *lot* of files on your
- disk:
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- Under UMSDOS, a symlink uses 4K, which means that you
- could use upwards of 100 megabytes of drive space to
- hold all the links. Still, this isn't too bad
- considering it allows you to use hundreds of megabytes
- of software from the CD-ROM. In practice, you can often
- keep the size under 40MB by careful software selection.
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- If you use an ext2 Linux partition, you'll have to make
- sure you have enough inodes to hold the links, since each
- link takes 1 inode. If your partition is smaller than
- about 80 megabytes, you should use the maximum inode
- density (1 per 1024 bytes) to make sure you don't run
- into problems.
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- slaktest: This is the most basic test installation, and uses the
- absolute minimum drive space. (less than 10 megabytes)
- It simply makes a link from your /usr to /cdrom/live/usr
- and lets everything run right off the CD-ROM. Since
- most configuration files are in /etc or /var you can
- still configure your machine completely. If you decide
- later that you want to run Linux from your hard drive,
- you'll have to reinstall, though.
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- -- end of installation method help.
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