Do i really need the 2nd CD of Slackware 9.1 ?
 

i have 8 GB here... and i've heard that you don't really need it...
what is in there? where can i find it?
btw - what partitioning set would you recommend?

thanks.

The only thing that I have seen is the kernel source, other than that there is nothing else. I bought the CD set to support Slack.

To answer your question, no you do not need the second CD.

Re: Do i really need the 2nd CD of Slackware 9.1 ?
 

With 8g, you'd probably want it.. CD2 has kde, kdei, and gnome.

No, you don't "need" disc 2 of Slackware 9.1, but, it
does include Gnome, KDE, KDEi, extra, testing and
the live rescue disc.
I think you might want it.
Or is there another Slackware 9.1 I don't know about?

Sorry I thought that it was 9.0. Haven't tried 9.1. But 9.0 has KDE and Gnome on the first CD.

9.0 vs 9.1
 

Reply to the last post:

Slack 9.0 have ONLY 1 CD! (including KDE, etc...)

Slack 9.1 have 2 CDs! (CD 2 includes Desktop environments, kernels, others... + this is a Live Slackware Bootable CD!)

Check this official readme file contained in the CD2:


Welcome to the Slackware Linux 9.1 CD, disc 2!
----------------------------------------------

Here's what you'll find on this disc:

Bootdisks and rootdisks needed for installation if your machine is unable to
boot a CD-ROM.

The "extra" directory (a collection of additional packages), and the "pasture"
directory containing things that have been removed from Slackware but may still
be useful to some people.

The "testing" directory containing GCC 3.3.1 packages and source code.

A "slackware" directory containing the Slackware package directories
that did not fit on the first CD. These are GNOME and KDE, the two most
widely used graphical desktop environments for Linux, and the language
translation (i18n) packages for KDE.

And last (but not least), this CD-ROM may be used to boot directly into Linux.

This is the famous Slackware self-booting Linux CD-ROM -- a complete Slackware
Linux installation that runs directly from the CD-ROM with no installation
necessary. With such a full range of tools including networking utilities.
It's the ultimate Linux rescue disc, and a great way to test or demo Linux on
any machine.

To use this disc, set your CD-ROM drive as bootable in your system's BIOS
settings, and then just boot the disc. On most machines, you'll be up and
running a Linux system (including X) in seconds. If you don't have a bootable
CD-ROM drive, you can still use the Loadlin loader along with a kernel and the
isolinux/initrd.img to start this disc. See the README.TXT file in the isolinux
directory if you need more information about starting the disc with Loadlin.

Thanks to the efforts of kernel hacker and all-around good guy H. Peter Anvin,
this disc now uses zisofs/RockRidge compression on the files in /live. This
allows us to put twice as much software on the CD than would otherwise be
possible. When mounted from a Linux kernel containing support for zisofs,
these files are decompressed transparently. If you ever need to decompress them
manually (say, if you mounted the CD using a kernel without zisofs support),
you'll need to use mkzftree (see 'man mkzftree').

This disc also serves as a reference for what a basic Linux filesystem
should look like, and is useful for grabbing a file or two, or looking at what
the ownerships and permissions should be.

One feature of this disc that deserves special mention is the inclusion of GNU
parted, a program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying
partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for
new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data between hard disks,
and disk imaging.

================================================================================

These are some of the important files and directories on this disc:

.
|-- README.TXT This file.
|
|-- extra/ Extra packages for Slackware like:
| | alsa-driver-xfs-0.9.6, aspell word lists
| | source, bash-completion-20030911, bison-1.875,
| | bittorrent-3.2.1b, brltty-3.3.1, btmgr-3.7_1,
| | checkinstall-1.5.3, db4-4.1.25, dip-3.3.7p,
| | emacspeak-18.0, emacspeak-ss-1.9.1, emu-tools-0.9.4,
| | fluxbox-0.9.6pre1, gimp-1.3.20, glibc-debug-2.3.2,
| | glibc-profile-2.3.2, 3dfx-glide libraries,
| | inn-2.4.0, iproute2-2.4.7_now_ss020116_try,
| | kernel-modules-xfs-2.4.22, kfiresaver3d-0.6,
| | libsafe-2.0.16, mpg123-0.59r, openmotif-2.2.2,
| | parted-1.6.6, slackpkg-0.99, slacktrack-1.12,
| | swaret-1.3.1, and xcdroast-0.98alpha14.
| |
| `-- source/ Source code for the extra packages.
|
|-- isolinux/ The ISOLINUX loader and initrd.img used to boot
| this disc. You'll also find the Loadlin boot loader
| and instructions (README.TXT) for using Loadlin to
| start this CD-ROM if you are unable to boot it
| directly.
|
|-- kernels/ Precompiled Linux kernels used to boot this disc.
|
|-- live/ The Slackware Linux live rescue disc filesystem tree.
|
`-- slackware/ This directory contains GNOME, KDE, and KDEI software
| packages for Slackware 9.1.
|
|-- gnome/ The GNOME (GNU Network Object Model) Environment.
|-- kde/ The KDE (K Desktop Environment) package series.
`-- kdei/ The KDE internationalization package series.


================================================================================

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================================= README.TXT ===================================

probably a good idea to load the second disk (gnome,kde,etc)
as far as partitioning, I have found this to work:
create a swap partition (type 82) activate it with:
mkswap /dev/hd(whatever) ; swapon /dev/hd(whatever
do this before entering setup.
when in setup do not format this partition
this will make that partition virtual memory and really make things interesting.