Cool use of the zipslack. Will you be in on Saturday to help set this up? Kelly Black KB0GBJ On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:38, you wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This sort of thing works great for doing the intial install. It *isn't* > great for actually running your system off of. UMSDOS (what ZipSlack does) > is terribly slow and I don't even think it works in 2.4. What I usually do > is stick a ZipSlack install out on a disk, boot via lilo floppy and > point to the UMSDOS thing as the root disk. Now that Linux is running, you > format your disk, copy over everything from /, setup lilo on the new > machine, reboot and it's a working linux box with minimal effor. > > Joshua b. Jore > http://www.greentechnologist.org > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Kelly Black wrote: > > How about Zipslack. Assuming you can unzip the big zip file after it is > > transferred, all you should have to do is change the loadlin line in the > > batch file, and away you go. You can add packages just like the regular > > Slackware. > > > > Kelly Black > > KB0GBJ > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8WWTlfexLsowstzcRAm+TAJ4zjNmnmq5i2Li0GvBaEZNdop8g0wCg3JgH > H4X1Fp3H2fslwM/VCYU9oms= > =6j3y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list