I read somewhere that Suse allows you to save linux configuration on a floppy so that you don't have all that work of going through packages choice again . there should be a way of doing it on other distros as well,
i can only guess that you might have to go to /etc somewhere and save it ( maybe saving the whole file ?) any help would be welcome.
PS is there a way that i can install this same Slackware 8.0 system i have (with all the configurations made as they are now) from a partition (that i would make just for that ) ?