Little bit lost as what I need to get install ready
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What you need if you want to burn a DVD is an ISO file, see here for instance (grab the file slackware-13.0-iso or slackware64-13.0-iso depending on your computer's architecture). What the links you provided points to is the content of the DVD once burned.
But if you prefer to boot on an USB key read this (this file is in the usb-and-pxe-installers directory in the page you linked to).
Not wishing to sound elitist here but the "-current" versions of the releases are pre release testing versions and really only meant for those familiar with Slackware for testing purposes. At the moment Slackware64 13 is the most recent and iso's are available here.
I used fdisk, myself. It seemed to work pretty well. I've installed it a couple of times and will again in a week or so. Maybe twice in the next week... :P
I've never used cfdisk, so I don't know what's needed there. And I'm fairly new myself. Only about since July have I used Linux.
Make sure you're doing `cfdisk /dev/hda` and not `cfdisk /dev/hda3`. If your drive is already partitioned, then *don't* use cfdisk as other data will be destroyed (unless you're just changing the partition type or something). If your drive *is* partitioned then just run setup and be sure to choose the right partition for your root partition.
I used fdisk originally but after seeing this in `man fdisk`:
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There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful
program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy pro-
gram that does fuzzy things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other
non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more power-
ful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)
I think with the new default libata drivers of current's 2.6.33 also the ide hard disks and optical drives should use scsi nomenclature (/dev/sdX for hds and /dev/srX for cdroms/dvds)
I quote Volkerding from current's changelog
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Mon Jan 4 21:43:02 UTC 2010
New kernels... and this deserves a mention/warning: the last bits of the
"old" IDE/ATA system have been removed now. Everything should be using
the libata based drivers now, so if you have any drives that are currently
running as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., when you reboot with these kernels all
drives will be renamed as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. If you had any /dev/sd*
already, they might get renamed. Adjustments may be required in
/etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, the initrd, and elsewhere. Good luck!
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