Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

Mike Keithley mlkeithley at comcast.net
Wed Mar 2 23:22:29 EST 2016


Sadly the Dos installation went away somewhere around Slackware 9. You can still get it in early slackware distributions from ftp.slackware.com, but it probably wouldn't work unless you happen to have an old IDE hard disk.

----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn  <glennervin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."  <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:11 pm
Subject: Re: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

>
>
> There used to be a slackware for DOS that I had for my first Linux 
> experience.
> It installed on FAT32.
> Whatever happened to that project?
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Haden Pike" <haden.pike at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer
> 
> 
> I already have a TalkingArch install on one of my machines here. I was going 
> to install Slackware in a virtual machine, because it's not a distribution I've 
> used before.
> 
> Haden Pike
> Computer Science
> University of Kentucky
> Class of 2016
> 
> 
> 
> > On Mar 1, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Kelly Prescott <kprescott at coolip.net> wrote:
> >
> > Haden, If you just want Linux and do not specifically need slackware, try 
> > TalkingArch Linux.
> > http://talkingarch.tk
> > It talks from the start, and while there is a bit of a curve to learn it, 
> > you can not only do the install yourself, but you can learn a great deal 
> > about Linux in the process.
> > Let me know if you have any questions about it.
> >
> > -- Kelly Prescott
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Haden Pike
> > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 6:32 PM
> > To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> > Subject: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I do not have a hardware synthesizer. Do I have any other options for 
> > performing an install of Slackware that do not involve me finding a 
> > sighted person to install it for me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Haden Pike
> > Computer Science
> > University of Kentucky
> > Class of 2016
> >
> >
> >
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