Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk

[Alex Snow]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk


> 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.
>
>
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