Slick Booting (Part 1)

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Mon Apr 7 17:05:53 EDT 2003


Yeah but it's old.  it still uses kernel 2.2.20 and is based on slackware
8.0

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

> You should be able to use Zipspeak.  As far as I know, it is speakup
> enabled Zipslack.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> E Pluribus Unix
>
> Alex Snow staggered into view and mumbled:
>
> > Hi Doug,
> > Thanks for the info.  I'll try this.
> > One question: is the zipslack 9.0 kernel speakup enabled?
> >
> > --
> > 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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