SlackWare Boot & Root disc from windows?

[MetroFly]

anyone know how to make one from windows?
thanks

 

[Bremen]

you'll need to use a program called rawrite, it should be on the disk somewhere.

 

[cleverhandle]

Rawrite isn't on the Slackware 8.1 installation disc, though. Neither are the boot/root disks for that matter. If you have the official set, all of that is on disc 4. If you don't, I'm sure it's on the FTP site.

 

[MetroFly]

thanks.

i'm kind of pissed at slackware now tho, on the readme they referred to it, on websites they referred to it, but when i burned the iso image, the bootdisk/rootdisk directory isn't even on the disk,. and actually spent an hour looking through individual crap. Managed to get the files i needed off the website from the non-iso download version.

i'm probably going to wait till new suse come out now.

 

[MetroFly]

hmm, no edit button.

posted at about the same time as cleverhandle. thanks, but i found out the hard way.

hmm. there is an edit button, but for some reason i had to refresh a couple of times to see it.

 

[cleverhandle]

While I understand your frustration, don't put down the best distro out there just because you're one of the (relatively) few folks left installing on an old BIOS. They were probably just trying to include as many packages as they could on one disk, and didn't want to use up 20+ MB that wouldn't be used by 95% of the users. Unfortunately, you were in the other 5%. Certainly, give it a shot rather than waiting for something else to hit the shelves.

 

[Bremen]

Ouch, sorry didn't realize that it was moved off the first disk (I haven't used rawrite in ages).

As for waiting for the new SuSe, new releases of something or other are always just a month away (frequently less). Currently Slackware itself is in beta for 9.0 (based on gcc 3.2 *drool*). RedHat and Mandrake are both close to releases as well... and of course new kernels come out at frightening speeds :0) So I highly recommend getting into the habit of "whats available now" otherwise you'll always be waiting just one more week.