[ale] Slackware to CD

MetroBoy metroboy at sprynet.com
Tue Sep 7 23:18:12 EDT 1999


>Well, hind site is always 20/20 they say. I've just downloaded the entire
>Slackware-4.0 directory. Yes, all 900+ megs of it on a 56k modem. (It took
>almost 5 days!) I wanted to abort it but as it keep going, it became a
>challenge to see how far it would go!
>
> Anyway, I went to burn a CD so I can install it, and realized that
>the Adaptec Ez-cd software will burn an ISO9660 disc, but only with 8.3
>filenames. If I set it to Joliet, it will use the long filenames, but I 
>doubt that Linux will read it right at install time. Now what do I do? 
>
>I'm going to try to mount it via NFS so I can finish the install, but I
>would like to get this onto a CD somehow. Any ideas?


Yea.  Buy the CD from Linux Central for $2.00, man!
http://www.linuxcentral.com/products/lccd/slackware-4.0/

Ed






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