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Yep has been asked before. Yep, I looked in dejanews (check it out
at www.dejanews.com. GREAT! Like, find out your own posting profile
:-)

BUT: my question hasn't been answered yet (or not that I am
aware of):

I'd like to put, say, slackware on 1 ZIP disk, boot and root (???)
from normal 3.5" disks and the, instead of installing from an MS-DOS
parztition (like, C:\slackware), do it from th ZIP.

Is this possible?

Okay, I can put the stuff on a ZIP and the on DOS and then... but
I'd like to go the direct route (I don't want the extra copy stage,
and I might not have a lot of space on my MS-DOS part...)

Okay, thanks for any replies (and please mail 'em ALSO, because
I am not reading this group regularly AS OF YET... as soon as my
system is up, I will.)

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: Yep has been asked before. Yep, I looked in dejanews (check it out
: at www.dejanews.com. GREAT! Like, find out your own posting profile
: :-)
:
: BUT: my question hasn't been answered yet (or not that I am
: aware of):
:
: I'd like to put, say, slackware on 1 ZIP disk, boot and root (???)
: from normal 3.5" disks and the, instead of installing from an MS-DOS
: parztition (like, C:\slackware), do it from th ZIP.

Where are you installing to?  I doubt you can put the source on the ZIP and
still have enough room for an installation.  However, if you have a free
partition on your HD, you can put the slackware sources (or as much as will
fit--make sure you get what you need) onto the ZIP drive.  The boot disk
"iomega.i" supports the parallel port ZIP drive...

Though the best method is a CD, unless you have a fast net connection and
can do NFS (I had the chance to do an NFS installation about a week ago.
COOL!!!)

If I wasn't clear, feel free to email me about it.

Evan Jeffrey

Quote:>I'd like to put, say, slackware on 1 ZIP disk, boot and root (???)
>from normal 3.5" disks and the, instead of installing from an MS-DOS
>parztition (like, C:\slackware), do it from th ZIP.

>Is this possible?

just before slackware 3.1 came out, a slackware 3.0 boot disk was put on
www.torque.net
have a look around there for further information... if the worst comes to the
worst you could probably use that disk image with whatever you want...

Adam