Alright, not Slackware. But I'm used to post here. There's a linux utility called sys-freedos.pl. It's a pearl script. If I want to download it, there only one option presented by Google, and this option directs me to github, where I have no other alternative than copy and paste the source text. Is that possible?

If you go to the root of the repository, you will see a link to clone the repo to the upper right. Running "git clone <url>" will fetch a copy of the repo to your computer.

There should also be a link for downloading a .zip (also in the repo root).

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Thanks a lot.

Alternatively, if it's only one file you want from the git repository, click on it, for example:
https://github.com/chaos/netroot/blo...sys-freedos.pl
And then look for the button "Raw" in the toolbar, click it and then use the resulted URL to download the file:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ch...sys-freedos.pl

By the way, I must runto get something like
I need these data to run sys-freedos.pl. However all I get isHas fdisk changed in these years, for I remember those data are what I got some years ago under slackware (I'm now using Arch Linux)?

EDIT: Of course these are typical data: 255 heads, 63 secs/track has always been, even in modern hard disks (which does not mean there are actually 255 heads) a de facto standard. So if I use those values with sys-freedos most probable is the thing will do well. sys-freedos.pl simulates the MS-DOS SYS command, which made a partition booteable under MS-DOS and copied the system files.

However, perhaps fdisk does not output those parameters because the "hard disk" is in fact an eMMC device.

Earlier thread:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nk-4175630650/

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Again - you can't expect relevant answers if you are not using Slackware but expecting us to comment on the tools in another distro. Find the Arch Linux forum and post your questions there. This here is the Slackware forum. Try not to pollute it.

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Perhaps one way we can assure non-Slackware questions don't get asked here is to be better about looking in the non-Slackware subforums and answering questions there.

I'll try to do that more. Not that everyone should -- I'd love to keep Alien Bob's expertise to ourselves ;-) -- but simple stuff like downloading a github repo anyone can answer.

It was answered right here. He ignored the answer and instead followed up with "casting blame is unhelpful."

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0/#post5860607

Err, that was me actually.

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I was asking a question about fdisk (post #5), did you not notice?

... and dugan was referring to your original post in this thread where you duped the question. Don't try to talk yourself out of this.

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