The wait for Slack9 ISO

potomuss · 03-20-2003, 05:42 PM

Hello friends,

Does anyone know about how long it might be before we see the Slackware 9.0 ISO? Just curious!

Regards!

Phonics3k · 03-20-2003, 06:04 PM

Ye I am waitin for the iso b4 I download, I cant wait for it tho

DaOne · 03-20-2003, 07:19 PM

There are a few sites that do have the iso...

http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php

I know they don't all state that they have it, but a few of the sites do...unofficial of course, but the result is the same.

potomuss · 03-20-2003, 07:40 PM

Whoa! Cool link DaOne!
Thanks!

Seph64 · 03-20-2003, 09:31 PM

I just make my own ISO file, all you need are the files in the slackware-9.0 folder, and the files in the isolinux, kernels, and slackware sub-folders.

potomuss · 03-20-2003, 10:23 PM

Good idea. To tell you the truth, I've been wanting to learn how to do that anyway. Anybody know of a good resource for the new winblowz convert?

kater · 03-21-2003, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Seph64
I just make my own ISO file, all you need are the files in the slackware-9.0 folder, and the files in the isolinux, kernels, and slackware sub-folders.

I'm running Slackware 9.0 alredy (updated with swaret) but also downloaded all the Slackware 9.0 packages (without KDE and KDE-i). But mkisofs won't work:

These are the commands i use:

kater@backyard:~$ mkisofs -o /other/slackware.iso -R -J -V "Slackware 9" -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 -A "Slackware 9 Install"

And it gets me this:

Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
mkisofs 1.15a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
Usage: mkisofs [options] file...

Use mkisofs -help
to get a list of valid options.

What's wrong?

Fuel · 03-21-2003, 04:14 AM

hoho .. i downloaded a iso the same day it was released

ftp://ftp.kpn.be/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-9.0-iso/

kater · 03-21-2003, 04:48 AM

But thats not the official ISO.

Edit: Sorry, this is the official! Nice to know!

Seph64 · 03-21-2003, 10:00 AM

It's too bad I have no place to upload the ISO file I created. It has Gnome and KDE.

Hcman · 03-21-2003, 10:23 AM

I think the problem is a typo.
You need to supply a "." (dot) at the end like so:

mkisofs -o /other/slackware.iso -R -J -V "Slackware 9" -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 -A "Slackware 9 Install" .

I believe this designates the source path for mkisofs.

Hope this helps!

HC

hecresper · 03-21-2003, 12:14 PM

I downloaded an ISO called:

Slackware 9.0 prerelease 2, is that not an official 9.0 release?

I think even if it's not an official release, I like what I see so far. Heck, 9.0 boots faster than 8.1 did on my system. Everything seems speedier.

Update: Got it from here: ftp://ftp.linux.ucla.edu/ if anyone wants to check it out.

Seph64 · 03-21-2003, 12:32 PM

Quote:

I think the problem is a typo.
You need to supply a "." (dot) at the end like so:

mkisofs -o /other/slackware.iso -R -J -V "Slackware 9" -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 -A "Slackware 9 Install" .

I believe this designates the source path for mkisofs.

Hope this helps!

HC

Yup, I think that it does.

kater · 03-21-2003, 02:07 PM

Whoohoo! Thank you! It works! A read the readme.txt so often and never thought, that this fu... "." has really something to do with the command *lol*

Hcman · 03-22-2003, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kater
Whoohoo! Thank you! It works! A read the readme.txt so often and never thought, that this fu... "." has really something to do with the command *lol*

kewl!
No it's real easy to miss.

Have fun!

HC