Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system > > Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM +0000 > > [..] > > Actually, I had decided to use Slackware for this project even before > posting my original message. Problem is, I still haven't been able to find > the info I need to do the installation manually. Everything I've found > walks me through the manual fdisk and mke2fs steps, but then tells me to > run setup, which of course, I don't want to do. > > I was hesitant to post this to a debian list (I still plan to use debian > everywhere else), but I didn't know where else to turn since my web > searches weren't doing me much good. > > So, do you perhaps know of a good source of info for walking me through a > manual install of slackware? A previous answer to this post gave me some > good info, but I was hoping more for a specific, step-by-step tutorial, > perhaps akin to Our Man Pann's walk-through for normal installs.
Well, there are various ways to start a linux system. Take a look at the boot disk howto (this is a task which normally involves building a linux system from scratch) and on the loopback root mini howto (sorry, at the moment I can't access my bookmarks --- please contact me via private mail, if you can't find information on this topic, due to me not remembering the right name). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Do what comes naturally. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.