I am currently working from a windows system, in the process of getting my server up. I want to install 14.1_64. My server has an integraded cdrom drive. I do not have cygwin installed on my windows system.

If I had a working *nix setup I would've already setup via pxe/tftp installation.

From the documentation I can see use of floppies is 2nd to usb boot method. I know I can create a usb boot disk, and I could use Plop boot mgr.

I don't want to do this because Its more work than i'd like to do. If i had a nix system i'd simply run file against usbboot.img to determine what file type it is, and or go ahead with the process of employing a sneakernet to:
xcopy usbboot.img E:\
(where E:\ is ntfs usbdrive)

and proceed to load the usbdrive, in x86 setup on my server, copy img to root dir, dd the img to the usb, and from the files in the usb create an iso via mkisofs

I can't remember if mkisofs is a utility on the setup.

btw i am going through this because i want to install 64 bit 14.1 and that is only available as a dvd and the only cdrom available is x86 for disk 1.

any suggestions? is there any possibility that i can convert usbboot.img to iso in windows? or in x86 setup?

alternatively, i can make an iso manually. can someone tell me which pkg series contains the source tarball where i can find:

/usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0

>> btw its not the source tarball you want. You want the slackware packaged syslinux, in the a series (i.e. http://mirror-url/slackware/slackwar...e64/a/syslinux).

i think i found a solution. for those that need help with this:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23052

i went ahead and created an iso. basically its the files that are mentioned in the pxe-usb-installer readme. In fact, the iso I created is 38MB, whereas the usbboot.img file is only 36MB. I am certain there is little difference between the two image files, perhaps the usbboot.img excludes a few files, and thats it. I found a frontend for mkisofs called DoIso. I haven't had a chance to test the image yet (i have to borrow a friends computer with a cd burner and man this is way more complicated than it needs to be).

I'll report back soon.

ISO images of the installer are available @ http://slint.fr/installers
To use one of them see them see http://slint.fr/es/installer.html.

Estos instaladores hablan español (América Latina), just press [F3] when you see the first screen to choose your language.

They can be put on an USB stick as well, you'll just need in addition a source of packages.

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If your Windows computer has a DVD drive, or even a CDROM drive, you can boot the Slackware install medium as a PXE server: http://docs.slackware.com/slackwarexe_install

Eric

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Didier,

Thank you--that is exactly what I was looking for! I got caught up in looking for isolinux.boot, and then I became concerned because I realized isolinux.boot would need to be built against the same version as the rest of the required files (which I grabbed from S64-14.1/isolinux), in order for mkisofs to inject the eltorito image (and more importantly, for setup to load without somesort of segfault or calltrace). Considering I was referencing the readme from Slack11, I started to become hesitant.

Eric,

That is completely awesome! I was not made aware of this functionality in the setup. I was actually going to try this out, until I realized the files the pxe server would be "serving," would still be the 14.1 x86 build, since that is the only burnt cd-rom I have. I am definitely going to have to try this out next time!

(Also I ran out of dvd-r's and didn't feel like leaving my house to buy more. This is the slacker way.)

I was pist because intially during the install I encountered this error. Before I knew what was going on I went ahead and torrented the rest of the cd-rom iso's thinking there was something going on w/ the webserver (doubtful as rackspace is commercial webhost--I know, give me a break i had a few beers at this point yesterday).

Finally when I read the aforementioned doc, I realized that the cd-rom iso's are only built in x86. I thought I could save the time of downloading the dvd-iso (space is also concern on this windows system I'm working from), so I went forward with attempting to make my own iso.

Little did I realize in my efforts to re-invent the wheel I could have downloaded the dvd-iso, used Eric's method, and have had a working setup yesterday.

Diego

More info:
- http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX
- http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...nux/README.TXT

Final thoughts: let me re-iterate, I highly reccomend anyone going through this, with reasonable resources, to use the pxe-install method. If you want to set a record with the fastest slack install, you will shit your pants when you see how fast a pxe/tftp/file-server combo will go on a gigabit lan.

And yes I've done this in an environment with 8GB Emulex nics and it is orgasmic.

Can I have some of what you're having?

cheers,