How come Slackware 64 is only on DVD? Maybe there's something I don't know like it was easier to configure that way or something.

It just seems kind of silly to me to be bit-torrenting those extra 3 CD's worth of source code around to people like me who are never going to use it. I always just get the 1st three CD's.

Or maybe that forces there to more seeds for the people that do want them? I guess that's a plus.

My personal opinion is... Most people who have 64 bit systems will have a DVD burner, and dvd's are about the same cost as CD's, I can't see why someone would want to write 3 CD's when one DVD would suffice. Now with older 32bit systems and with support for the i486 architecture, there are many machines that won't even have dvd drives, let alone burners. Plus on those systems, they could very well be extremely limited on space which would most likely mean a smaller install.

That is my personal belief behind it. Although from my understanding, you can still make cd's with the 64 bit architecture, but you have to use a script once you have a local copy.

Hi,

I can see why someone would want to create 3 CDs vs a DVD. Not every system has a DVD reader.

OP: Download the DVD image an load as a 'loop' device. You can use the 'usb-and-pxe-installers' to boot.

you can try Eric's script (mirror-slackware-current.sh) and try to direct it to 13.0 release on some mirror. It will give you 3 CDs...

Perhaps another point is that it takes bandwidth and time/patience to download the full dvd image. It would be useful to have a smaller dvd image which might not have any of the source and most of the international stuff (kdei and the aspell lists for example). Then users can go on the web and get the specific international options they need. So servers could put out a dvd-lite version. What do you think?

Like most of you, I've rsynced over time with the -current version, less the kdei and aspell lists in my case. So all we need to do is convert to iso and write the dvd.

I thought it was a bit strange too, but I came to the conclusion that the idea is that if your machine is new enough to support 64bit, it'll be new enough to support booting from a usb flash drive, so for those of us that only used to download cd1 to save bandwidth we should use the usb installer image and just download the disk sets we want.

I've a x86_64 system, but I don't have a DVD-burner. USB installation is not an option because I don't have a USB . I was hoping to find the CDs.

Anybody know if this will work :- Installing Slackware with a CD-Drive

EDIT: I think I will boot from the cd and I'll install packages from the hard drive

If you have a x86_64 system you will either have a DVD drive or a USB connector, or both. This is why there are no DVDROM ISO images.
If you have no DVD burner that is not a problem either - just order the Slackware DVD from http://store.slackware.com / in which way you will also support the future development of the distro.

If you want to have a small bootable 64-bit ISO that you can burn to a CDROM medium, and then use packages on the local drive, you can download this installer-only ISO: http://slackware.com/~alien/slackboo...ni-install.iso

Eric

Thanx Eric.

And yes, I'm also going to support it but Slackware 13.0 is not yet available in India.