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billy_gates:
I was wanting to try slackware (to see what everyone raves about)  I was looking at the Install Help and In the selecting a boot disc section.  It says I need a floppy to boot Slackware... Is this true?  Doesn't slack have grub or lilo or something similar.  I ask this because I do not have a floppy drive in my PC.  So is there any way I can install slack without the boot floppy?

insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
I was wanting to try slackware (to see what everyone raves about)  I was looking at the Install Help and In the selecting a boot disc section.  It says I need a floppy to boot Slackware... Is this true?  Doesn't slack have grub or lilo or something similar.  I ask this because I do not have a floppy drive in my PC.  So is there any way I can install slack without the boot floppy?
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Pick a mirror:
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/
Choose Slackware-9.0-iso
Burn Slackware-9.0-install.iso on a rom.
Boot it.
(This is the easiest way.)

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:


Pick a mirror:
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/
Choose Slackware-9.0-iso
Burn Slackware-9.0-install.iso on a rom.
Boot it.
(This is the easiest way.)
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oh... so that boot disc was meant only for the installation... not the actual OS.  Cus I had already downloaded and burned that iso.  But I didn't want to install it if it was going to ask me to make a boot disk... cus I wouldn't be able to make one.


THX for the clarification

billy_gates:
oh... one more thing... is slackware only 1 cd.  Is it not full of all that stupid bloatware like RH and SuSE are?  I was tired of clicking install all and it would take like 5gb on my HD.  But then if I didn't click install all it seemed I couldn't properly compile and build stuff.  If slack is indeed only 1 cd then I can click on install everything.  It won't take 5gb and I should be able to compile and build everything.  I have a good feeling about this one.

Refalm:
Mandrake took me only 700 MB. It's installed everything I needed (except for CVS, which I can't manually install).

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