Instructions for making a current ISO?

blue900 · 03-29-2009, 04:04 PM

I have revived My Daughters Laptop with SLackware 12.2.
So Now her EEE PC 901 is avalable to test Something besides the stock Xandros after 9 months of use she is ready for a full power OS and the stock OS is acting Strange. She is getting ready to go back to Collage.

What I need is an ISO of Slackware Current.
Can someone help me with info or a link to some info how to do this?

Thanks!

Daedra · 03-29-2009, 04:08 PM

I'll let someone else explain how to make one, but if you just want to download one you can do that here. ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.slack...e-current-iso/

Didier Spaier · 03-29-2009, 05:04 PM

Or you could do it this way:

1) Make a local mirror of the -current tree. For instance:
rsync -avz --del rsync://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/slackware/slackware-current /local/directory
2) Make an ISO image of it and burn it to a DVD -- I suppose you have a DVD writer:

Code:

cd /local/directory/slackware-current
mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware-dvd.iso -R -J -A "Slackware Install" \
  -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
  -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
  -c isolinux/isolinux.boot -V "SlackDVD" .
cd /tmp
growisofs -speed=2 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=slackware-dvd.iso

More information in the slackware-current/isolinux/README.TXT from which I borrowed above commands.

bgeddy · 03-29-2009, 06:43 PM

AlienBob hosts a script which will mirror the current tree and when finished creates a CD set / DVD. You can find it here. It has loads of useful options and is worth looking at.