Installing Slackware 8.0

[Toby Fisher]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

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> As to why they just don't use the old one, they've reworked the
pkgtool
> and I think, the version has to match on the disk and the CD or something.
> I do know that it uses longer file names that indicate the version of the
> package you are installing and what platform it is compiled for.  However,
> I agree that they could surely get the root disk smaller by cutting out
> some garbage and using older versions of utilities.  For example, why does
> an installer disk need telnet?  Maybe you should ask Pat yourself about
> this.  I personally think that there will be enough outcry that he'll have
> to do something before the final release since there have been a few flair
> ups on Usenet over  this issue.

Which newsgroups have you been reading?  I'm interested because I want to
put these points forward before it's too late.

Cheers.

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