How to fetch a set
 

Hi all!

I recently had a drive crash and buying a bigger drive I would like to install Win2K and Slack along with FreeBSD on my machine. The thing is, I don't have a fast internet-connection, ISDN only which would take me ages to download a cd-image, forget about the week it takes for a dvd!

So I asked a friend to download it for me and she asked me to write her an email with the links. Ok so far. But as I do not want to cause more problems than necessary I would like to keep the download as small as possible. I found two big problems:

1. I can't find a description of the CDs or a table of contents. It seems to be some kind of "don't ask, just download" situation here. I thought people would watch their bandwidth, so where is some doc about what to find on which cd?

2. I read something about distribution sets which sounds plain awesome. I know this technique from OpenBSD which needs a floppy to boot and the rest is just picking the sets you want to, man-ages, bin-files, sources etc. But where can those sets be downloaded? The ftp-servers have all the sets split up as different folders, shouldn't I download them as one compressed archive?

If you could give me any help I'd be very happy to hear from you.

Thanks in advance for your efforts

Patrick

I can't give you what your asking for (sorry) but it sounds to me like ordering the CDs would probably save you a lot of time not to mention you and your friends a lot of bandwidth neither of you seem to have. Unlike Windows, buying Linux CDs is pretty dirt cheap.

From what I remember,at the most you will need the first 3 cdroms, and that is only if you want to install the 2.6.17.3 kernel and KDE, as the 2.6.17 kernel modules are on the 2rd disc, and KDE on the 3rd (I think). If you want the 2.6.18.0 kernel then you will need disc 4 as well. There is a list of what is on which disc somewhere on the Slackware website, but I can't remember where.

You really only need the first 2 CDs (Actually, I'm not sure what's on the third CD, but I never needed it).

Don't worry about or get disks 4-6, they are just sources and/or testing stuff.

As for package sets, they are in separate folders ... what more do you want ? The point is to keep downloads small, if they were all in one big tarball it would be quite big and take forever to download.

Slackware 11.0.

Disc 1: A, AP, D, E, F, K, L, N, X, XAP Part 1, Y. Linux Kernels.

Disc 2: KDE, T, TCL, XAP Part 2. Floppy install images. Extra part 1.

Disc 3: KDEI. Extra part 2. Testing part 1.

Disc 4: Source code part 1. 2.6.18 kernel packages.

Disc 5: Slackware book. Pasture. Source code part 2. Zipslack.

Disc 6: Source code part 3.