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Old 02-19-2008, 06:19 AM
John
 
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Default Questions about the Slak91d2 CD


I have a pair of Slackware 9.1 CD's, which I got from linuxcd.org.
I've used these to get a successful text-only install of Slack,
which is now running fine, after a fair amount of installation
grief.

But, I need to install on multiple other machines (I'm a RH refugee),
and I've got questions, for which Google doesn't seem to have
answers, or at least not ones I can find!


1. What is the "_RR_MOVE" directory in Slak91d2?

These look like they may be some modules / drivers, including
one for my Intel Gigabit NIC's, which would be very nice. If this
IS what they are, how can I use them?


2. All of the directories / files on the Slak91d1 CD are lowercase,
where expected, but are upper-case on the Slak91d2CD, ie., KDEADMIN.TGZ"
instead of "kdeadmin-3.1.4-i486-1.tgz", as listed in the package list
on the Slackware website. The packages in the FIRST CD (Slak91d1) are
in the expected form, ie., "aaa_base-9.1.0-noarch-1.tgz".


Is this a bad #2 CD? Will the uppercase file names be handled by the
Slack installer?? (Install of KDE / Gnome failed, the 1x I tried it;
I didn't need it, so I quit and went for a cmd-line only install.)



3. If I install from a FAT32 HD partition, can I simply replace
the original packages with their updates found in the 9.1 updates
mirrors, and thus have a fully patched up install on the first run?



4. Assuming that the contents of the _RR_MOVE_ directory ARE modules
or drivers, is there a way to get the 'extra' modules I need, like
the e1000 Intel driver, installed originally?


Thanks for answers . . . or pointers to the right documents!

Ben

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