On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:36:10 +0000, Larry Lindstrom wrote:

> Religiously attached? My disdain for Red Hat is
> slightly less than my disdain for Microsoft.

Complete agreement there, although I do still have RH-9 installed on a
second hard drive just to re-confirm that belief ;-)

> My local Fry's Electronics doesn't have Slackware
> on the shelves.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a burner, and the two
> Win98 users I know who each own one have demonstrated
> an inability to burn an ISO image.

Well, if you have a bit of space available on another computer running
Linux, BSD or some form of UNIX you can download the full content of the
CD, create the required floppies (3-4) and install the system by NFS. I
did in fact install Slackware-8.0 on a laptop that way; the laptop lacks a
CDROM drive.

Give Lucent's nmake a try first; getting all of Slack's files requires a
substantial download:

[save]# du -sk slack-9.0/
1338964 slack-9.0

It may also be possible to install Slack from the download if you place
those files in /home and do not create a new filesystem on /home during
the installation. I haven't tried that so check the Slackware-HOWTO in
the top level directory on the FTP server.

You may also have the option of installing Slackware's ksh93 package on
your Dead Rat system. The package is in the slackware/ap/ directory on
the servers and can be unpacked in /tmp. Then run ldd on the executable:

[root]# ldd /bin/ksh
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40025000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40029000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

If Dead Rat has those libs you could use that binary. In fact, RH-9 does
indeed have those 3 libraries.