Slick Booting (Part 1)

[Alex Snow]

Hi Doug,
Thanks for the info.  I'll try this.
One question: is the zipslack 9.0 kernel speakup enabled?

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A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!"
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Doug wrote:

> Alex,
>
>  > The drive I was thinking of is a 240mb maxtor taken
>  > out of a dead 486...
>
> It would make a good rescue disk. Beats using floppies
> or cdrom ... with 240mb you could also install zipslack
> on DOS and get a full minimal slackware system. Then if
> you have trouble with your other drive, you can boot
> from this one and fix stuff on the other drives. I like
> the install.zip because it's small.
>
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/zipslack/README.1st
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/rootdisks/install.zip.README
>
> The cool thing about the install.zip is that it only
> needs 16MB, so even on a small disk, you can have a
> small DOS partition and always have a rescue disk
> on HDD ... I hate floppies ... I don't like cdroms
> very much either. The more I can do straight from
> HDD or network the better ...
>
>    -- Doug
>
>
> >--
> >A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up
> >yours!"
> >On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Doug wrote:
> >
> > > Alex,
> > >
> > >  > I may install another hdd to completely devote to dos.
> > >
> > > The DOS (FAT16) file system only goes up to 2GB ...
> > > What I do is put a 300MB DOS partition on every machine.
> > > It's wild but those "windows bundles" I spoke of hold
> > > the *entire* windows 2000 install bits in approx 250MB.
> > > They are compressed and they extract. So I wouldn't
> > > devote a whole drive to DOS ... a nice small partition
> > > will do it ...
> > >
> > >    -- Doug
> > >
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