earlier with 10.1 i had the same problem trying it to boot (second cd- but 10.0 was bootable) for rescue operations, i guessed it was because of much packages,
so i just wrote pat to make the 2nd of 10.2 a bootable one(there is no gnome), this is the mail and reply for those who r interested

Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi@slackware.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
To: "R Radhakrishnan" <rkrishna_r6@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 10.2 second cd bootable rescue/live cd



On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, R Radhakrishnan wrote:
> earlier 10.0's 2nd cd was bootable but 10.1's not
> i know it may b due 2 the lack of space now gnome is
> not there so we hope u will make it at a maximaum of
> Live cd

Sorry, but it's still not going to fit...

Take care,

Pat
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****still 2nd cd is full of stuff , means pat included much more things hi
so i expect something new from pat for 10.2
what magic will b in 10.2 ???
it would have been nice if it was bootable rescue cd, if possible a live cd hi

would somebody tell me how to use the original (1st slack cd) cd as a rescue cd for rescue operations like
boot to machine, or for chroot

I guess this is what Pat calls progress..........I cancelled my subscription when 10.1 came out and CD2 was not a bootable live disk............I guess being sick last year kinda scrambled Pats grey matter, I'm not gonna vote for slack as LQ's "05" distro of the year..............

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- boot the cd and choose your keymap, login as root (da ! )
- i suppose /dev/hda1 is / (root) , /dev/hda2 is swap and the filesystem is reiserfs
PS: if you use other partitions like /usr, /var, /boot ....etc, first mount / then mount others

that should do the work
you might also need to mount /proc but it's not always needed

You can still use disc 1 as a live cd...

But, kde keeps growing more and more with every release, and i would not be suprised if disc 2 had just kde on it.(and barely didn't have enough space for a live cd)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...07#post1825507

kde is about 250 -300 MB righti there is sitll 350 MB for live cd

Not too long ago, I used the rescue cd from 10 or or 9.1 or 8.1 to get into a 10.1 system here.

Does this not work for other people?

thanks cb951303 and Charred

hi CB951303
in ur method we have to make directories.....# mkdir root mkdir boot
does all the thing extract to RAM (as live cd does)
even if we doesnt have a seperate partition for /proc??????

hi charred here bare.i is this the kernel from cd??

can i use a kernel made (suppose 2.6... in the /boot) or can i use the vmlinuz original which lie in the /boot?? instead of bare.i

hi guzzi, wht abt the one who doestnt have these old cds, but i have

actually i tried once with 10.0 2nd cd, but was not aware how to use so failed, but it booted and i could get into machine :0)

being a strange distro, slack must need this facility, it is really wanted, or the debian people will point this as a negative point comparing them
our distro must be full in all sence

SlaX could do the job, but wht abt one who doesnt have tht

Keep in mind that the growth of the binary packages (usually) also implies a growth of the sources. Things like TeTeX and KDE grow significantly, so it is not odd that much more space is needed for the sources.

rkrishna: not to be offensive in any way, but I think it will help getting longer and and more useful answers via e-mail if you use correct spelling. I'd discard e-mails that use "u r 2 lazy" spelling.

yes you create the directory(which is 0 byte I think ) in the ram but I wouldn't say "extract" because you don't extract anything from hdd, you just mount the data in your hdd to the directory that you made. Think of it as a door to your hdd :P

I really don't know much about proc system but it's a virtual filesystem to watch(read-only) kernel activities so as far as I know It should always have to be mounted separatly, when you just mount the / you can look at /proc and you will se nothing so just do a search in the forums for howto mount /proc because I don't know

GlowGlow ok ok may be all are using these shortcuts for writting mail too, will keep this in mind

tetex is going big, now it uses tetex 3 it was not updating till 10.1 hi
even without gnome the cds r full then may b some nice stufs r there in 10.2
and pat will make it a rescue cd bootable and but not a live cd


wht about the Q in previous post about the kernel Q,(bare.i and keenel form /boot)

There won't be much more than you see in the changelogs. But hey, CD 1 already is a rescue CD . You can chroot with it.