Your understanding of Slackware is incorrect.
1. The bootdisks and rootdisks themselves are downloaded as disk images. You
use the (DOS) program "rawrite", or the Linux command "dd", to copy the disk
image to a formatted disk (one that has NO bad sectors, BTW). At sunsite,
rawrite is in the directory
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/3.6/bootdsks.144/
along with the bootdisk images. For dd, read "man dd". You may also want to
read the file "INSTALL.TXT" available (for example) from sunsite in the
directory
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/3.6/
2. The Slackware packages themselves are stored as zipped tar files, with
the extension .tgz (to accommodate the DOS 8+3 filename limit). The setup
script on Slackware rootdisks takes care of unzipping and untarring during
the install process.
3. Slackware also has a version called zipslack that loads Linux from a DOS
directory. This is a single, large .zip file, and it does get unzipped with
a standard DOS/WinXX unzipper like WinZip. As far as I know, this is the
only Slackware variant that needs unzipping under DOS or Windows.
All of the above applies to files on Slackware CD-ROMs as well.
At 03:04 PM 4/8/99 -0400, Blue Ink Press wrote:
>After you download files from a Slackware mirror site, you can't just use
>the boot and root disks and install them from your harddrive without
>unzipping them, they have to be unzipped in dos, first? If so, what unzips
>them, and where do you obtain it? And what would be the DOS command to do
>this?
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