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Hmm..., i have installed slackware 10.1 inside vmware recently. However
i made a mistake while configuring network by choosing it as using
loopback only. Though it runs well but i could not get online from it. I
don't want to re-install this version as it is getting bloated. the
default install is 3GB. So i am looking for an old slackware which has
these 2 features

1. ISO image which is bootable.
2. Have DHCP client.

I have checked the change log of slackware, first version to include
DHCP support is slackware 3.9/4.0. No i am not sure if the 3.9 or 4.0
iso is bootable. It seems the first bootable slackware version is 8.0?

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Gordon Freeman wrote:

> Hmm..., i have installed slackware 10.1 inside vmware recently. However
> i made a mistake while configuring network by choosing it as using
> loopback only. Though it runs well but i could not get online from it. I
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Unless you really want an older version, just re-run netconfig.

Regards,

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> Hmm..., i have installed slackware 10.1 inside vmware recently. However
> i made a mistake while configuring network by choosing it as using
> loopback only. Though it runs well but i could not get online from it. I
> don't want to re-install this version as it is getting bloated. the

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this isn't windows, you don't need to always reinstall: just
enter "netconfig" while root.

> I have checked the change log of slackware, first version to include
> DHCP support is slackware 3.9/4.0. No i am not sure if the 3.9 or 4.0
> iso is bootable. It seems the first bootable slackware version is 8.0?

use a new one, otherwise you don't have any security patches.

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Gordon Freeman wrote:
> I don't want to re-install this version as it is getting bloated. the
> default install is 3GB.

I don't know what your definition of bloated is, but I have Slackware
10.1 running as smooth as can be on a 486/50MHz with 16 Megs of RAM and
a 170 Megabyte (yes, 170MB) hard disk.

~Mik

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From "Sensual Latin" by Henry Beard

Gordon Freeman (president@blackhouse.gov) writes:
> Hmm..., i have installed slackware 10.1 inside vmware recently. However
> i made a mistake while configuring network by choosing it as using
> loopback only. Though it runs well but i could not get online from it. I
> don't want to re-install this version as it is getting bloated. the
> default install is 3GB. So i am looking for an old slackware which has
> these 2 features
>
> 1. ISO image which is bootable.
> 2. Have DHCP client.
>
> I have checked the change log of slackware, first version to include
> DHCP support is slackware 3.9/4.0. No i am not sure if the 3.9 or 4.0
> iso is bootable. It seems the first bootable slackware version is 8.0?
>
And if you'd just been selective, you could have cut that considerably.
Slackware is no more bloated than any other distribution, because the
"bloat" comes from throwing in the kitchen sink, which means you get
a great selection of applications but you don't have to use them or
even install them. Figure out which editor you do use, and get rid
of the rest. Dump the desktops you don't use. Dump the games. And
so on. Oh, sure some of the files have become larger as the
version numbers increase, but that's the case with any distribution,
since they all pull from the same pool of kernel, utilities and
applications.

You don't even have to reinstall. Just use removepkg to get rid
of the things you won't make use of. It really is easy to remove
(or add for that matter) packages after the initial installation.

When I first tried Slackware, in early 2001, it was on a computer
with 10megs of memory, and a 200meg hard drive (and Slackware 7.0).
The biggest problem was deciding what I wanted to use, since I
had no experience with Linux, and obviously could only put a bare
minimum of applications on that small drive.

Five months later, I bought a used computer so I could run Slackware
in style. It had a 2gig hard drive, and that left plenty of space
for the my files. It was simpler to just tell the installer to toss
everything on, but if I wanted the space I would have been selective.

"Bloat" of distribution is matching the higher density of the hard
drives. Or rather, the drives get bigger at a faster rate than the
distributions grow, I think.

When I was given this computer almost two years ago, it had a 20gig
hard drive, and I put Slackware 9.1 on it, then later moved to Slackware
10. I had even less reason to fuss, and put aside a 5gig partition
for Slackware and again just tossed it all on. Last week I spent
$125 on a 160gig hard drive, for not much more reason than because
they are so cheap (I spent $80 for my first 3.5" floppy drive back
in 1989, and I can't remember what I paid for my first 5.25" drive
before that). There is no way that Slackware, or any Linux distribution,
will bloat so much that it will be a burden on that 160gig drive.

Michael

In alt.os.linux.slackware, Gordon Freeman dared to utter,
> Hmm..., i have installed slackware 10.1 inside vmware recently. However
> i made a mistake while configuring network by choosing it as using
> loopback only. Though it runs well but i could not get online from it. I
> don't want to re-install this version as it is getting bloated.

1) GAFC http://www.manbottle.com/pictures/cluepon.jpg
2) STFW http://tinyurl.com/8rlzw
3) RTFM http://slackbook.org/html/network-configuration.html

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