Thrre has to be a workaround

Pyrophorus · 12-31-2004, 01:13 AM

I have a newly formatted computer, which I want to install Slackware on.

However; Rawrite wouldn't copy any of the kernels to floppys, and when I
did it, the floppies capacity was too small. Is there anyway to get Slackware installed?

gnashley · 12-31-2004, 08:43 AM

Use images from the /bootdisk directory, not the kernels dir.

Pyrophorus · 12-31-2004, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gnashley
Use images from the /bootdisk directory, not the kernels dir.

I did. They wouldn't go on the floppies
Sorry, for my newbie-ness of terms.

gnashley · 12-31-2004, 03:16 PM

What command are you using?
I always put rawrite itself and the image on top-level C: since rawrite doesn't like spaces in the names. Then just invoke rawrite without arguments and follow the prompts by giving the image name and then A: for the destination. Make sure and use the 'right' rawrite.

Pyrophorus · 01-02-2005, 07:31 AM

I moved the rawrite and bare.i file to C: and I got:

Number of sectors per track for this disk is 18
Writing image to drive A:. Press ^C to abort.
Attempt to DMA across 64K boundary

Plus the capacity of the formatted, empty floppy is 1.38, where bare.i or all the bootdisks are 1.4+