slackware 8.0

slackware 8.0

[cbowman]

hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at
installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek however
in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole thing or not. i
have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk 1 how meany disks should
I have for slackware? thanks alot.
charles

Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive

Re: slackware 8.0

[David Csercsics]

There shoudl be two slackware CDs. A slackware install and a slackware
extra. I have both as well as brltty-enabled boot disks here if you
want to get them via ftp.



On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> 
> hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at
> installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek however
> in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole thing or not. i
> have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk 1 how meany disks should
> I have for slackware? thanks alot.
> charles
> 
> Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> 
> 
> 
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RE: slackware 8.0

[Adrian Beech]

G'day,

There is also a third disk (ISO image) which contains the source. This
appears to be only available on ftp.slackware.com though.  The mirror
sites I visited didn't have the source.iso file.

Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could be zipped
so it would reduce the size of the downloads.  I've seen this done with
the Solaris 8 ISO images which are on Sun's and AARnet's sites.

Adrian
A.beech@bigpond.net.au

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From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of David Csercsics
Sent: Sunday, 3 March 2002 6:26 AM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: slackware 8.0


There shoudl be two slackware CDs. A slackware install and a slackware
extra. I have both as well as brltty-enabled boot disks here if you want
to get them via ftp.



On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> 
> hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at 
> installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek 
> however in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole 
> thing or not. i have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk 1 
> how meany disks should I have for slackware? thanks alot. charles
> 
> Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> 
> 
> 
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Re: slackware 8.0

[David Csercsics]

Well I could zip up the ones that I have and enable acess to them if
people wanted zipped ones.? Just let me know if you want that and
which compression format you would like.



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:56AM +1000, Adrian Beech wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> There is also a third disk (ISO image) which contains the source. This
> appears to be only available on ftp.slackware.com though.  The mirror
> sites I visited didn't have the source.iso file.
> 
> Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could be zipped
> so it would reduce the size of the downloads.  I've seen this done with
> the Solaris 8 ISO images which are on Sun's and AARnet's sites.
> 
> Adrian
> A.beech@bigpond.net.au
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of David Csercsics
> Sent: Sunday, 3 March 2002 6:26 AM
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: slackware 8.0
> 
> 
> There shoudl be two slackware CDs. A slackware install and a slackware
> extra. I have both as well as brltty-enabled boot disks here if you want
> to get them via ftp.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> > 
> > hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at 
> > installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek 
> > however in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole 
> > thing or not. i have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk 1 
> > how meany disks should I have for slackware? thanks alot. charles
> > 
> > Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> > 
> > 
> > 
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RE: slackware 8.0

[Adrian Beech]

David,

Thanks for the offer but I've already downloaded the images.  It sure
put a dent in my volume allowance!!!  Sigh, I really hate volume
capping...

Adrian
A.beech@bigpond.net.au

-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
On Behalf Of David Csercsics
Sent: Sunday, 3 March 2002 9:31 AM
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: slackware 8.0


Well I could zip up the ones that I have and enable acess to them if
people wanted zipped ones.? Just let me know if you want that and which
compression format you would like.



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:56AM +1000, Adrian Beech wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> There is also a third disk (ISO image) which contains the source. This

> appears to be only available on ftp.slackware.com though.  The mirror 
> sites I visited didn't have the source.iso file.
> 
> Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could be zipped

> so it would reduce the size of the downloads.  I've seen this done 
> with the Solaris 8 ISO images which are on Sun's and AARnet's sites.
> 
> Adrian
> A.beech@bigpond.net.au
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com 
> [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of David Csercsics
> Sent: Sunday, 3 March 2002 6:26 AM
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: slackware 8.0
> 
> 
> There shoudl be two slackware CDs. A slackware install and a slackware

> extra. I have both as well as brltty-enabled boot disks here if you 
> want to get them via ftp.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> > 
> > hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at
> > installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek 
> > however in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole 
> > thing or not. i have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk
1 
> > how meany disks should I have for slackware? thanks alot. charles
> > 
> > Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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Re: slackware 8.0

[L. C. Robinson]

> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:56AM +1000, Adrian Beech wrote:
> > Just as an aside... It would be nice if the ISO images could
> > be zipped so it would reduce the size of the downloads.  

All distributions already archive the individual packages in
superior archive formats (zip is pretty dated, and M$ specific),
usually *.tgz, *.tar.gz, *.deb, or *.rpm.  If the zip archiver
(which is available for linux) is configured properly, it will
not try to compress these archives again, thereby actually
increasing their size a bit.  So you would gain little or nothing
by zipping the ISO image, or rest assured, they would already be
shipped (or posted) in this way.

LCR

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Re: slackware 8.0

[cbowman]

hi, ok thanks for letting me know. if you were to zip up the slackware
extras files how big would it big. i am only on a 28.8 dial-up
conection. thanks 
charles

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, David Csercsics wrote:

> There shoudl be two slackware CDs. A slackware install and a slackware
> extra. I have both as well as brltty-enabled boot disks here if you
> want to get them via ftp.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0600, cbowman@netdoor.com wrote:
> > 
> > hi listers, I have a cupple of questions if i may. I am looking at
> > installing linux on my system. I have  slackware 8.0, and brlspeek however
> > in the case of slackware I am not sure if i have the hole thing or not. i
> > have 1 cd but, the volyam label says slackware disk 1 how meany disks should
> > I have for slackware? thanks alot.
> > charles
> > 
> > Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Test Drive
> > 
> > 
> > 
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