[ale] Slackware to CD

Glenn C. Lasher Jr. critter at wizvax.net
Thu Sep 9 06:43:28 EDT 1999


I've seen several answers to this so far, but nobody has pointed out the
obvious....

THE SLACKWARE FILES ARE 8.3 ALREADY.

...thus the distribution directory is slakware, not slackware.

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Gary S. MacKay wrote:

> 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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