Can someone help clarify this for me? Concerning making a DVD iso...
 

Hi, I know what I want to do and this is make a DVD installation iso of Slackware64.

I happened to find this readme: http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/sla...nux/README.TXT

and so I want to do the first option. I don't understand though how exactly to do those commands he says to issue from within my browser. And I specifically want Slackware64-current from this exact link: http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/sla...are64-current/

so can someone tell me from a terminal how to use the commands from the first URL and do they need to be changed to specify Slackware64-current somewhere?

To do that you need a local copy of the Slackware repository you want to use.
After you have downloaded the repository you can launch those commands (you don't need to adapth the for Slackware64 -current).
But it is much easier to just use AlienBobs's mirror-slackware-current-script, it automates all the tasks for you.

Okay, thanks a lot!

This is a couple of days old, but I don't know who's server it actually is. Googling shows several places the iso can be downloaded. Like Tobi said though, the easiest way I know is to just use Eric's script which will generate the iso's for you.

Thanks damgar!

That's what I need. I had just gone to the mirrors via Slackware.com and was looking from there.

By the way, assuming I get my networking going from this iso, what command do I issue to update the system? Is slapt-get a default package management in Slackware? I have only used it to install things in Salix. So could I run slapt-get update perhaps in slackware?

Well, I hate sound stupid but to use alien bob's script, how do I execute it? I tried typing as root the location of the file but that didn't work.

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To run a command in the current directory, which may not be in your PATH variable, explicitly reference the current directory.

where mirror.sh is the file you want to execute.

Edit: The file also has to be executable ... chmod +x mirror.sh

Also don't forget to make the script executable first.

Regarding slapt-get, no, it is not installed by default, but you can easily use slackpkg to keep the system up to date. just uncomment a mirror in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors and then follow the instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4689424

@Tracy Tiger

I just tried doing that as root, and I got "permission denied". Why could that be?

Oh, okay. TObiSGD, thanks. By the way, that shell script is just for slackware-current, but is there one for Slackware64-current?

Have a look inside the script, it is well documented.
If you look inside the script you can see that you can invoke it with the -a option to specify which architecture you want, so in your case try it with Alternatively you can change the ARCH variable in the script or set it on the commandline to the wanted architecture.

Okay, cool. I will try that then. I will remember to first make it executable as well. I will consider this thread solved. Thanks!

Hmm... I tried the above shell script adjustment and got an error. What should I do?

root[Downloads]# ./mirror-slackware-current.sh -a x86.64
Mon Jun 4 12:45:08 CDT 2012 [6018]: Cannot find slackware-current directory:
(/home/ftp/pub/Linux/Slackware/slackware-current)!
Use '-f' parameter to force the creation of this directory.
Aborting now...

Exactly what is mentioned there:The script expects to be some directories to be in place. If they aren't it asks you to start the script with the -f option added, which causes the script to create those directories.

Okay, that's what I thought but just double checking.

chmod +x mirror.sh will give you permission to execute that file, now do a ./mirror.sh and it should go.