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Hokay, Slackfolk, I've been excited for 13 for quite awhile, and I'm ready for a fresh install instead of an upgrade, personally.
Downloaded the torrent just fine, sittin' around on my desktop...went up to Office Depot for a DVD, but you can't buy single ones...there were some in the sale bin for $2, so I went with those.
However.
They're "Double Layer" DVDs. 8 gigs of space on 'em.
When I try burning the iso with K3b, it won't work. From the very beginning it says:
More than 50% will be *wasted*
Fatal error: wrong media type
Obviously, I understand what it's saying, but is there ANY way I can get around this? Do I *really* need to go and buy another stack of DVDs? Are there any other programs I can try that might let me use these?
if you have a writeable CD, I'd suggest to burn the image of the first Slackware-installation-CD. You can mount your DVD-isoimange and copy all contents into a separate partition and then, booting with the CD install the packages from the partition.
You can as well create an isoimage for a CD from the contents of your DVD-image, so you do not have to download another image.
Also a bootable usb-memory-stick would help.
Further reading (after mounting the DVD-image): isolinux/README.TXT, usb-and-pxe-installers/README.*
markush -- nope, no CDs layin' around here. I do have a USB stick, though. I'll hafta admit, I only really understood about a quarter of what you said, but I'll look into the literature, thanks (^.^)v
andrew -- k3b uses growofis. I tried it though, the command line, but I got a slight variation of the same error:
:-( more than 50% of space will be *wasted!*
use single layer media for this recording
Grawr. Is there *any* way I can like, override this error?
@linus72: Thank you very much , this looks very interesting to me since I often do a reinstall and store my packages on a separate partition. I'll try that out.
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