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Thread: Problems installing slackware

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    Antionline Herpetologist
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    Unhappy Problems installing slackware

    When you try to install slackware off a hard disk you need to make 2 diskettes using dd or rawrite right? One is a boot disk and the other's a root disk. Am I the only one who's noticed that the color.bz root disk image is 2.24 MB? How the heck are you supposed to make an image of that on a floppy? I thought it might be a tgz file that has a color.tar inside with a number of images but that isn't true either. Any ideas? Also, I wouldn't mind installing in text mode if only I could find the text.gz file on any ftp (ftp.slackware.com doesn't have it).
    Cheers,
    cgkanchi
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    Hi,

    http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.sl...text-rootdisk/

    Has what your looking for, should also work fine for 8.1

    Cheers.
    God / Root..

    ....Whats the difference?

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    OK, I solved the problem by downloading the ISO and burning it to CD on my brand new CD-Burner. Thanks a lot anyway Ancile and Christina. BTW, Christina, why'd you delete your post?
    Cheers,
    cgkanchi
    Buy the Snakes of India book, support research and education (sorry the website has been discontinued)
    My blog: http://biology000.blogspot.com

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