More adventures with thinkpad and linux: install methods

[Toby Fisher]

Cheryl,

If you download the slackware 8.0 boot and root disks from the ftp site,
that will enable your cdrom drive to work, or it should.

The only files you need are
speakup.i from the bootdsks.144 directory, and
color.gz from the rootdsks directory.

Just use dd to write these to floppies, or cat of course.
Then, as you boot up from floppy, when the drive stops spinning the first
time, type
ramdisk speakup_synth=xxxxxx
Where xxxxxx is your synthesiser.
You'll then here the disk go for a bit, and it should start speaking, and
the last thing it'll ask you to do is put the root disk in and hit enter.
There's stuff about network and pcmcia stuff that requires and extra disk,
don't worry about this.

Just keep hitting enter till you get a prompt, and then mount the cdrom
(there's already a mount-point called /mnt, but you'll need to make
another one for your hard drive partition), and then you should be able to
copy from your redhat disk to your heart's content.
Alternatively, you could always download and install from Slackware
anyway, though if you want the latest version, 8.1, you'll need 6
floppies.

Good luck.

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