(yes, I saw http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=197081 , but downloading 2.8 GB on a 56k isn't exactly feasable, and I probably won't be able to use my friend's broadband for some time...)

That being said, have any of you ever successfully made a DVD out of just the four ISOs, and if so how?

nicolae; mirror to dvd from hdd or cd. not up on that but that may be which way to accomplish task.

Maybe I don't understand your question -- do you have the four ISO's now, or not? If not, you'll have to spend the time doing the download regardless. If you do have them, why not just burn them to blank CD-R's and install Slack from them? Perhaps the source of my confusion is that it isn't clear what you are trying to accomplish -- if your goal is to install Slack, I'd suggest just using the 4 CD's, but if it is to learn have to combine multiple ISO's onto a single DVD as an educational experience, my apologies, please disregard this comment. Good luck with it either way. -- J.W.

To be honest you don't even need all four CDs... The first two are the most important.

You only really need the CD1 and CD2 to install Slackware 10.
You can go even further: since CD2 is just Gnome/KDE3.2.3/kernel2.6.7 get just CD1 and get DE of your choice separately.

KDE3.3 (download.kde.org) is only ~140Mb (without games and language packs).

EDIT: ohh, sorry, you do need some libs packages from CD2 for KDE3.3.

I already have all four, I bribed afforementioned friend with DSL to download them for me. Still, unless I can figure out why slack doesn't like my HDD, I won't be doing anythng.

nicolae, suslik & xushi; nicolae both suslik & xushi are right on the money in that the rest of cd,s are extra app,s & programs for future use(ur,s).
and thank you suslik & xushi for that heads up. on the other hand i was just giving info that nicolae did not have a clue about. so rather than deprive of the download just being thoughtful in allowing nicolae mirror all of them on to dvd,s. THANK YOU after all that is the linux way help each other any & all the time!

It's true that you don't need all 4 CD's to install, but assuming that you do want the _full_ set of Slack v10 materials, they are part of the set. -- J.W.

Actually I think Nicolae already did have plenty of clues about this; he/she was just asking for clarification about how to consolidate the data -- J.W.

*he, and I'm just going to extract all four ISOs, edit and merge the CHECKSUMS.md5 and FILE_LIST, and then recompile as an ISO with the slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso bootimage, then try to burn.. see what happens, anyway

Well... I'm testing in in VMWare now, which will also confirm that the slack10 isos are not the root of my other issues... I ended up grabbing the CHECKSUMS.md5 and FILE_LIST (and Manifest.bz2 for ./source) from slackware-10.0 on one of the mirror FTPs, so we'll see if itworks (and if it does, I'll burn it and see what happens when I try to install off of that)

Well, the DVD burnt fine and installed just fine
Of course, I disabled hotplug and now I can't use my keyboard, but, the DVD does install.