Hi,
I tried to install slackware 13.0 from UBS CDROM, but somehow it got errors. I needed 3 CDs and first one had no errors, but the 2nd one got errors from time to time during installation process(md5sum failed on the 2nd CD too). What is insteresting is that the same CDs worked fine with other machine which has an integrated CDROM drive(installation successful) therefore it got me think that my USB CDROM drive may have some issue.

So, the next step I'll take is copying iso images to HDD and install from there, but one question came up.
To install the packages I need, 3 CDs are require, and when I install from a CDROM drive, it tells me to change the CD if necessary.
But what if I install from HDD ? I'd have 3 ISO files in HDD.
Does the installer tell me to specify the ISO file when package installation moves from one ISO file to another ?
Or do I have to do anything to ISO file to make it work with multilpe ISO files ?

thanks

I have never done the HDD install, but I am almost positive it requires you have the Slackware package tree sitting on the partition, not disc images. So you would take the /slackware directories from the individual discs and combine them into one.

Thanks for your reply.
I had a similar issue with Vector Linux with some other machine before and I tried the method suggested in the 12th post in this link.
http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=10647.0

I remember it worked with VL. I thought dd in the link generates the ISO file, but it was a while back and I dont' remember well.
I came up with this idea because Slackware and VL are close cousins.

I have only done so with the dvd-iso. But if it doesn't ask for the preceding CDs you should be able to mount the next isoimage and start setup again and just skipping the steps you've all ready done. It should work to just select source and packages and run the installation again and skip the configuration afterwards.

I have started the setup again like that a few times when I play around with minimal installation.

Another way of doing it is to make a installation and restart after the first CD and manually install alle the remaining packages on a working system. I haven't done this though, but it should work. In theory after all :P

I have done that.
Burned the first cd. Installed it. Now I had the basic slackware.
After that mounted iso of cd2 to /mnt/tmp. Now are /f,/k,/t,/tcl,/x,/xap
available for installing with installpkg or every category has install-pakages script.
And if you want KDE then repeate that with slackware-13.0-install-d3.iso.

And I have done hdd install of zenwalk. I am pretty sure it is possible to install slackware the same way!

yes it's possible to install slackware from a hard drive
partition. That's how I installed slackware 13.0.
I copied the contents of the iso to an empty folder at
the root of one of my partitions...
I wrote the procedure I followed here:
http://vonbiber.byethost17.com/slack...ocd/index.html

Hi,

If you have 'hash' errors from the 'md5sum' check on the ISO downloads then I suggest that you get new downloads. If the errors were from the burning of the image to the disk then slow the burn rate down for the burn session.

If the ISO md5sum are not valid then you will/may not have a good install. You might try a different mirror that is closer to your vicinity.

Moving bad ISO images to a HDD will not solve the problem. To answer your query about a HDD ISO install. Yes, it can be done. Do a search here on LQ as this very subject has been covered many times.