On 07/29/2014 10:40 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/29/2014 04:05 AM, King Beowulf wrote: >>> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, Marvin Kosmal <[email protected] >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I was thinking of installing Slack. Was running Ubuntu but, last >>>> upgrade it said my hardware support needed upgrade and then it didn't >> boot. >>>> I am running an old version of Ubuntu on another drive. >>>> >>>> Does Slack have a net install? >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>>> Marvin >>>> >>>> >>> Sorry, no net install. Slackware is distributed as a bootable DVD or 4 >>> CDs. These are all full installations. >>> >>> >> Slackware DOES have netinstall. it works very well, but you need to type >> in exact path to the server you want to download files from. Works over >> NFS, HTTP and FTP. Find a mirror online and enter it in on the >> appropriate step (there is a list on slackware.com). You have to type it >> in manually, sorry :( >> >> Shame on you Kingbeowulf.... >> >> >> -Ben >> >> > Unfortunately that's not very useful since you need to boot the > slackware installer (either DVD or minimal USB stick) first before you can > use it. You can set up a PXE boot, but then again you will still need to > download the Slackware tree. In Slackware, net install is only usefull if > you have multiple installs to do or remote systems. > > Far easier to just dowload the DVD and install from there. > > K. I. S. S. > > - Ed > >
Alien Bob <http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php> made a mini iso. I have been meaning to try it but in theory it should work just fine. You leave out the packages on the install DVD and are left with a ~40MB credit card install CD. If anyone wants to give it a go.... -Ben _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
