I always installed slackware using floppy disks but now I have this new
shiny Thinkpad T42 laptop with no floppy drive, and it surely deserves
a slackware install! I seached the web/groups for ISO images of
slackware-current but the only ISOs available I could find are for
slackware 10.0, not current.


Is there any way to have the equivalent of the floppy install disks
(boot + root) on a bootable CD? Did anyone know some server with ISOs
build from current? Thanks for any hint.

Minel

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:43:52 -0800, mf625 wrote:


>
> Is there any way to have the equivalent of the floppy install disks
> (boot + root) on a bootable CD? Did anyone know some server with ISOs
> build from current? Thanks for any hint.
>
> Minel

ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...ent-ISO-build/

Thanks!

mf625 wrote:

> I always installed slackware using floppy disks but now I have this new
> shiny Thinkpad T42 laptop with no floppy drive, and it surely deserves
> a slackware install! I seached the web/groups for ISO images of
> slackware-current but the only ISOs available I could find are for
> slackware 10.0, not current.
>
>
> Is there any way to have the equivalent of the floppy install disks
> (boot + root) on a bootable CD?

Make sure you have the right isolinux.cfg on the cd, just copy the whole
isolinux directory from any slackware mirror onto it. Then mkisofs -b
isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.cat -no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 4. I think there's a readme that mentions it. Just make the
cd like that but from the current tree.