Is there a separate bootdisk for SATA?

scythempress · 05-17-2016, 11:37 AM

I am about to format a 40 gb drive for Slack 14, because it is my favorite distro and I have been out of the Linux loop for a while. There is a bootable disk for IDE, and one for SCSI, is there one for SATA or do we just use bare.i?

Wells · 05-17-2016, 01:11 PM

Not really a Slack user... haven't used it since version 3.3. However, I would be mightily surprised if the base install these days does not support standard SATA. I think it would be more likely that it not support PATA than SATA these days. Face it, SATA has been the standard for over a decade now.

cwizardone · 05-17-2016, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by scythempress

I am about to format a 40 gb drive for Slack 14, because it is my favorite distro and I have been out of the Linux loop for a while. There is a bootable disk for IDE, and one for SCSI, is there one for SATA or do we just use bare.i?

You might ask to have your post moved to the Slackware forum.
Version 14.1 is the stable version, but any day now, if not any moment, 14.2, with some significant changes since 14.1, should be released.
As to your question, the .iso, once burned to a DVD or a thumb drive, should boot.

frankbell · 05-17-2016, 08:43 PM

Boot disks have gone the way of the floppy disk drive.

If I remember correctly, the last few times I installed Slack, it did not ask me whether I wanted to create a boot disk. It asked me whether I wanted to create a bootable USB image on a thumb drive.

Even if you have a boot disk, though, I don't think it would care whether the HDD was IDE or SATA or even SDD. Once the boot starts, the work is passed off to the HDD.