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> Ah to save all the speculation, I can help out here...
>
> My main linux box has SuSE 8.1 , dvd and stuff BUT
>
> I'm experimenting with some old Pentiums with 64Meg ram which I want to
> network - just to see if I can- and want an un-bloated OS.
> The problem I have is that these old boxes don't like a boot image over
> 1.4Meg in size and I am very definitely at the learning stage for
> burning bootable ISOs.
>
> So - as soon as I work out how... I will burn a bog standard Slackware
> ISO install CD and make a boot floppy diskette which has just enough
> info to drice the CDROM and find the CD's boot image.

The ISO's you made from the linux format dvd are bootable, first one is
install, second is live rescue.
If you want a bog-standard slackware cd you might want to try following the
instructions in the isolinux folder rather than using the magazine's
script.
>
> I know I could burn the 1.4M floppy image onto the CD but I feel sure
> that some of the boxes don't even boot from CD acording to the BIOS so I
> guess the floppy poining to the CDROM is a safer bet.
>
> If anyone knows of some good HOWTO pages which explain a little about
> boot/root images ramdisk and the order everything happens on power-up
> I'd be grateful
>
You've checked the readmes in the bootdisks and rootdisks folders, yes?

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