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Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> BenneJezzerette wrote:
>
>
>>Hmm well if ever I became a Programer, and did that, be sure I would
>>find time to test it out. I would not even take the time to just
>>arbitrarily let something out, ...
>
>
> That's almost always easier said than done: you can test things you create
> (or in this case, package together) for your own purposes on your own
> hardware, but inevitably someone somewhere will have a combination of
> hardware, software, and personal requirements that will make - whatever
> it was you took the trouble to test in all ways you could - fail.
>
> I do have a suggestion for using the oversize .iso file, which may be
> how it was intended to be used (or as was suggested already, it may be
> oversized due only to carelessness, but I think my suggestion will work
> anyway):
>
> leave the .iso on a regular file system on a hard disk, boot the system
> from either floppy, or from the CD of a previous Slackware version,
> mount the partition containing the oversized .iso file somewhere out of
> the way, then mount the .iso itself via the loopback interface. You'll
> need to leave the partition mounted with the .iso file untouched while
> you install -current, but if you have extra disk space that may not be a
> problem.
>
> The disclaimer, of course, is that I've not tried this myself, so I
> don't want to accept any credit unless it works. ;-)
>
My Linux bible says that you can mount an iso too. May just try that.
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