[ale] Slackware to CD

[Christopher S. Adams]

well, what i did was ONLY download the slakware dir, the boot images i
wanted, and rawrite

Chris
----- Original Message -----
 From: Gary S. MacKay <gary at edisoninfo.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 9:38 AM
Subject: [ale] Slackware to CD


> 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?
>
> - Gary
>
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