Using Hard Drive as media source for installing SW9.0
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Using Hard Drive as media source for installing SW9.0
Since none of the CD's I've burnt are readable(No buffer-underrun errors or anything, but neither Windows nor Linux will read them, and they won't boot up. When I use boot disks, Slackware's install program doesn't read them either), so I've decided that I'm going to try installing Slackware from my hard drive. I'm planning on storing the Slackware install files in /home/Slackware, /home being its own partition right now(Everything else is on the / partition). I'm just wondering, my /home partition is hdb1, but since I'd have the Slackware install files in a sub-directory, will it still work to use Hard Drive as my install media? Right now I'm running RH7.3 just to have things as their proper format.(And it took me long enough to figure out how to install RH7.3 without errors, because of the condition of my disks, the disks would only work in my slower CD-ROM drive, and my RH7.2 disks have some package error...)
So, back to the question:
If I use bare.i as the boot, and install.1 install.2 as my root disks, can I install Slackware9.0 from my /home partition(HDD is IDE)
I got it working! Here's what I did, and also what my setup(hardware-wise) is:
hda1 - swap
hda2 - /
hdb1 - /home
I used the boot (bare.i) and the two root disks(install.1 install.2) to load up the installer, then I reformatted hda, but I retained the partition sizes.(Only reformatted to wipe the partitions clean). Then I ran the installer, chose hda1 as the swap, formatted it through the installer, chose hda2 as /, formatted it through the installer, then chose hdb1 as /home, bud did not format. Then I chose the media source. My path was as follows: /mnt/home/Rob/Slackware9.0/slackware
From there it listed all the packages I could install, rather than just [A]. I chose all but Gnome(2.2, outdated, so I'm going to download 2.4 and install that after the install finishes) and KDEi.
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