Installing Slackware - Quick Question

[YahoKa]

This is my first time installing slackware (i only used redhat and mandrake before.)

I have downloaded the directory "slackware" that has (almost) all the slackware package folders. What i want to do is put all these onto a CD and make the CD bootable. Everywhere i read it says i need 2 floppy disks but i have no floppy drive . Can anyone help me?

 

[Bremen]

From the README in the isolinux directory:

To make a bootable Slackware install CD, get into the top level Slackware
directory (The one with ChangeLog.txt in it) and issue a command like this
to build the ISO image in /tmp:

mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \
-R -J -V "Slackware Install" \
-x ./bootdisks \
-x ./extra \
-x ./slackware/gnome \
-x ./pasture \
-x ./rootdisks \
-x ./source \
-x ./zipslack \
-hide-rr-moved \
-v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table \
-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
-A "Slackware Install CD" .

Then use 'cdrecord' to burn it. (See 'man cdrecord')

Notice that to fit the install image on one CD, you must exclude GNOME:

-x ./slackware/gnome \

or exclude KDE:

-x ./slackware/kde \
-x ./slackware/kdei \

or, leave them both off:

-x ./slackware/gnome \
-x ./slackware/kde \
-x ./slackware/kdei \

or, leave off the KDEI series (KDE translations):

-x ./slackware/kdei \

You decide.

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notes:
The isolinux/isolinux.boot file will be created on the CD; it's not
supposed to be in the source tree. I mention this only because so many
people reported the "missing" isolinux/isolinux.boot file as a bug.

I don't know how to create a bootable Slackware ISO on operating systems
other than Linux, but it should be easy to burn the Linux-created ISO with
most CD burning software on any operating system.

UPDATE: I've now been informed that there's a Windows version of mkisofs
available from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha if you want
to try to make the ISO image under Windows. I haven't tried this.

 

[YahoKa]

Excellent. Thanks for helping a newbie without any "RTFM you idiot"

 

[drag]

actually that was a realy good question

 

[Bremen]

Well, saying RTFM normally dosn't help, but PTFM (posting the frickin' manual) seems to work fine :0) Of course the directions assume a working *nix installation already, and that you downloaded the isolinux directory as well as the slackware one. They mention a windows version of mkisofs, so maybe this will work on that platform. Whether any windows-centric tools can do it is beyond my knowledge however :-(