hammer wrote:
>
> Where is this "icewm" do get from - and is it downloadable
> separately ?
It's on my Slackware 7 and Debian 2.1 CDroms. Probably other
distros, too (but I don't have them). You can also download
the latest version (source or rpm) from the icewm site (I don't
remember the URL, but a search for 'icewm' will find it).
> install from diskette and not from the CDrom which all the
> other distributions need by now
Slackware and Debian still install from floppies. You can
download the files with Arachne and write the floppies in DOS.
Or you can take the installation CDrom to another computer and
make the floppies there.
> we didn't even manage to make a Linux installation yet from
> a backpack CD - the ones at parellel ports - despite of
> intense working nights of three people at a workshop.)
Slackware 7 installation has a special bootdisk for parallel port
CDroms. It supports parallel-port products from MicroSolutions,
Hewlett-Packard, SyQuest, Imation, Avatar and others.
Alternatively, if you can access the backpack CD from DOS, you
can use SOSS to serve the CDrom over your LAN using NFS. Or,
you could make a 32meg DOS partition on your target machine
and and use DOS to copy the basic installation files to that
partition (where they will be available to a Linux partition
on the same system). Later, if you don't want a DOS partition
on that machine, you can reformat that 32meg partition to swap.
Cheers,
Steven
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