I am currently running RH7.3. I want to try Slackware and maybe eventually move to using it alone. I started my Linux journey with a 32Gb HDD partitioned into 1-/boot 100Mb , 3-swap 256 Mb, and 2-/ everything else. I figured it would be easier to put a different distro onto a seperate partition, so I used parted to shrink #2, and then added #4 at 5Gb. I know how to mount hda4 into directory tree. I think I have figured out how to set up Grub to boot the Slackware (bare.i) kernel. I even read how to mount the ISO's into my directory tree (I did it and I can actually see into the contents of the ISO). The reason I need to mount the ISO's is because the 'puter with the CD-writer just left for college with the twins! Questions:

1) When I look in the bare.i directory there is bzImage, System.map and a config file. I have copied bzImage and System.map to /boot as *-slackware. All of the other kernels in /boot are vmlinuz. Is bzImage the same? Do I need to rename it?

2) When I went to slackware.com via ftp, I downloaded the 8.1 installation ISO (one disk, 102.4Mb). Where are the other ISO's? BTW, the ftp site said the file was 600+ Mb, but I downloaded it twice and both times (from different sites) the download completed at 102.4Mb. What's up with that?

3) Is it possible for me to do the install with the ISO(s) located in /hda2 and point the install program to install on /hda4? How?

Thanks

denny

2) It's a 650+ MB iso. Try the European ftps. They're fast.

Check md5sum on ISO you got, jetbalackz is right the Slacker ISO is more than 650 Mb, as for "Where are the other ISO's?" I like Patric's idea to keep everything to the bare neeeded minimum in order not to bloat the ditro. So for everything else there is MasterCard ... Oops, there is internet and http://www.google.com/linux

Okay, so number two is answered. I'll download again and see if I can get a complete iso.

How about #1 and #3 ???

denny

OK. I've tried three other sites. All of them quit after 102,400,000. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong... I've downloaded iso's before. Anybody else having the same prob?

dp

try this http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/mirr...ckware-8.1-iso mirror, and I am curious what is the space left on /tmp if it is a part of / then what is the space left there? Also you might need to try anotehr browser, or a text based browser like lynx or links the mirror I give you the link to is html, if you are getting yours from ftp try ftp clients.

df

Post result here.

What downloader do you use? Don't bother with a browser's built-in one except for Konqueror, I think, that has resume.

I use aria.

I was using gFTP. Tried your sourceforge link. Same thing. Tried downloading with Konqueror. It quit before 102.4Mb, and resume refused to work, something about unexpected result.

/tmp is on / partition. 25Gb free space.

I may have deduced the problem last night as I was going to sleep. When I installed Linux, I went out and got a new hard drive (Maxtor 40Gb). Tried to boot up the computer, and found that my BIOS didn't support drives above 32Gb. Had to install the little jumper in the back of the drive to get the computer to boot. Booted into Linux, partitioned the drive, and did the install. I remember somewhere along the way, I got an error message that said that the "partitioning scheme didn't match _blank_ "(I can't remember exactly what), "but that it probably would be alright to continue". Now that I have spent 3 months getting everything pretty close to the way I like it, I'll bet I've found out that it wasn't alright to continue.

Could this be my problem? (The other times that I downloaded iso's were to a different computer that had a CD-RW drive).

denny

If you'd like to I can send you a burnt copy of Slack8.1 install cd just e-mail me your address. E-mail is on my profile or you can use this link
neo@linuxquestions.net

I haven't figured out how to fix the problem yet, but I have identified the problem. Somehow "ulimit" was installed on my system, and is limiting the size of files that users may have (root doesn't have any restrictions). I will post again when I figure out how to fix it. (So far changing ulimit in .bash_profile didn't work, and neither did changing ulimit in /etc/profile).

Did you get Slack CD yet?

No, not yet (as of tuesday pm). I DID figure out what the problem was with trying to download the ISO's. I had installed a "security" program called Bastille that I had forgotten about. It asked a whole bunch of questions, one of which was about user permissions on the system. When I disabled the program, everything reverted back to normal. I will re-run the program later and answer that question differently. Thanks for your help (and for the CD).

denny

Boris,

I got it. I'm writing this from my new Slackware partition. So far, I love it. Got a whole lot of exploring to do, though.

Thanks again.

denny

You're welcome, Denny. If you have a problem to solve or you want to help others with linux you know where to come