From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 6139 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2000 03:42:21 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2000 03:42:21 -0000 Received: from smtp.mail.yahoo.com (smtp.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.32]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA28347 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:42:20 -0500 Received: from dialup84.remote.hq.nasa.gov (HELO whowell) (131.182.97.184) by smtp.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2000 19:42:16 -0800 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <009401bf67af$566ec160$cc50fea9@HQ.NASA.GOV> Reply-To: "Scott Howell" From: "Scott Howell" To: References: Subject: Re: Instructions for installing Slackware Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:36:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 List-Id: First ramdisk is a temporary place in memory that the os will treat like a tiny hard drive. Hope that is a pretty brief and straight forward explanation. you just need to have enough ram for it and Linux will do the rest. You can run a dual-boot system and others on this list are most definately more qualified than I to explain this. I am just working on getting Linux installed myself. Of course one the blasted snow lays off, UPS will bring me my box to install it on. The Slackware cd set contains 4 discs. THe side of the case that opens with a book is the section containing disc 1 and 2. As you open the case there will be a cd on the left and one on the right. THe case as you know contains two sides that open and one center piece. This center piece is the section that contains discs 2 and 3. The outer sections hold discs 1 and 4. Again the side that has the booklette contains disc 1 and 2 thus the thin section that has one cd is disc one. You'll know this if you insert this disc and do a dir. It'll tell you its disc 1. now what to type. Well depending upon the boot arrangement. I don't know what speech synth your using, but once you get that disk made up and booted, you'll type install, but you have to get the Linux boot disk made and then run fdisk to create the Linux partition first. However, now I'm getting out of familiar territory and so will leave you in the hands of the vastly knowledgible and helpful folks on the list. Once I get up and running I'll be happy to help anyone I can. However, at this point I'd probably be more harm than good.. Goodluck. 73 de Scott/n3byy Laurel MD http://www.qsl.net/n3byy for immediate response, send mail to n3byy@amsat.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com