Installation notes for Slackware 1.0.4.

To install Slackware, you must have a 3.5", 1.44M first or second drive, and
a 3.5", 1.44M, or 5.25", 1.2M boot drive. If you are installing from a 5.25"
boot drive, you will need to read the file "README_5_25_Install" as well as
this one.

Things have changed for the installation procedure, but only slightly.
You will need to get the bootdisk.gz and gunzip it, and then write it to a
floppy with Linux dd or the rawrite.exe program under DOS. If you don't have
gunzip or gzip to uncompress bootdisk.gz, just grab "bootdisk" instead. Other
than the compression, they are the same.

  NOTE: When using dd to create the boot disk on Suns and possibly some other 
  Unix workstations you must provide an appropriate block size. This probably
  wouldn't hurt on other systems, either. Here's an example: 

  dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/(rdf0, rdf0c, fd0, or whatever) obs=18k

Then, get the disk sets you wish to install. Currently, these include:

A:   Base system including NET-2, news, C/C++, smail, and much more.
     This system is at kernel level .99pl13, libc.4.4.2a.
E:   Emacs 19.19
F:   All the most current Linux related FAQ lists. (HIGHLY recommended)
IV : InterViews development libraries, includes, and the doc and idraw apps.
     Requires X.
TCL: Tcl/Tk script language and X windows toolkit.
Q:   This is sort of an alpha-stuff series that may change and/or disappear
     at any time. Currently it contains source for the Linux kernel .99pl13
     with net2 fixes, and two .99pl13 zImages, one for IDE and one for SCSI.
X:   XFree86 1.3 and related software.
Y:   Games. The used to be the 'G' series, but was changed because of a name
     conflict with the SLS custom German series. The 'Y' series now contains
     Curtis Olson and Andy Tefft's port of the BSD text games collection. 
     I'm still open to suggestions for more stuff here.

SLS sets such as the T (TeX) set may also be installed right along with the
Slackware sets.

The OI ObjectBuilder disks are also now available.

The bootdisk is no longer the first disk of set A -- instead it has been
made a seperate item. I suppose the official name of this disk would be
the "Slackware boot/install disk." Disk A1 is now an MS-DOS format disk
containing packages like all the other A series disks.

For each disk, make an MS-DOS format disk and copy the proper files to it.
The "00index.txt" files are added by the FTP server. You don't need those.
If you're using NFS or hard drive installation, just set up a directory with
the disk subdirectories for the disk sets you want. You'll only have to make
the boot floppy, in that case.

Make sure you have a blank, formatted floppy ready to make your Linux boot 
disk at the end of the installation. 

You may install extra software on an existing system from the slackware 
bootdisk as a result of improvements in version 1.0.4. Just boot the disk
as if you were going to reinstall, add your swap partitions, and then the
system will detect that your root partition has already been formatted and
will ask you if you want to reformat and start over, or add new software to
your existing installation. The /etc/pkgtool script can still be used to 
install extra software as well, but this is another option you have now. In
addition, you can add new software from floppy, hard drive, or NFS, something
that couldn't be done as easily before.

Enjoy!

Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu