Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk

[Adam Myrow]

You can't write it to a floppy.  You either have to download install.1
through install.5 and write them to 5 floppies, download the initrd.img
from the isolinux directory and somehow boot it, or download install.zip
and unpack that on the root of  a DOS partition.  If you can boot CDROMS,
you are in luck because you can now type something like "bare.i
speakup_synth=bns" and get speech from the CDROM directly.  I have the
official Slackware CD set and it includes a "Live" CD which lets you boot
and run off a CD for demo or rescue purposes.  It also has speech support.
It is a real shame that the root disks got inflated like they did, but it
seems that code bloat is now beginning to rear its ugly head even in
Linux.