I've downoaded the 4 iso files of slackware-10.1 from a mirror and I have
checked their signatures and the were OK.

Then I mounted all of them with the loop device under linux to check what
each CD contains.

But isn't the second CD (slackware-10.1-install-d2.iso) also supposed to be
a bootable rescue CD? Thats what the README.txt file says:

|-- README.TXT This file.
|
|-- isolinux/ The ISOLINUX loader and rescue.img used to boot
| this disc. You'll also find the Loadlin boot loader
| and instructions (README.TXT) for using Loadlin to
| start this CD-ROM if you are unable to boot it
| directly.

well, there is no isolinux/ directory on the second CD.
Whats wrong? -o loop, the documentation or PatV?


I've also noticed there's a wrong link on the third CD,
rootdisks/color.gz -> ../isolinux/initrd.img
but there's no isolinux on that CD either (nor it should have).


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damjan

Damjan wrote:

> But isn't the second CD (slackware-10.1-install-d2.iso) also supposed to
> be a bootable rescue CD? Thats what the README.txt file says:

not this time. pat was pressed on time.

On 02-11-2005, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
Dominik L. Borkowski <dom@vbi.vt.edu> wrote:

> Damjan wrote:
>
>> But isn't the second CD (slackware-10.1-install-d2.iso) also
>> supposed to be a bootable rescue CD? Thats what the README.txt
>> file says:
>
> not this time. pat was pressed on time.

Care to explain this? Who or what pressed PV into spitting out a
nearly complete version of the distro?. If the man truly had health
problems, I doubt it would have devastated the Slack community if he
had held off on the 10.1 release for a few more months to make sure
the quality is up to snuff. Yes/No?

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"Dominik L. Borkowski" typed:
> Damjan wrote:
>
>> But isn't the second CD (slackware-10.1-install-d2.iso) also supposed to
>> be a bootable rescue CD? Thats what the README.txt file says:
>
> not this time. pat was pressed on time.

Does disk-1 have bootdisk/ and rootdisks/ directories in it? The ISO
I downloaded doesn't.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan

>>> But isn't the second CD (slackware-10.1-install-d2.iso) also supposed to
>>> be a bootable rescue CD? Thats what the README.txt file says:
>>
>> not this time. pat was pressed on time.
>
> Does disk-1 have bootdisk/ and rootdisks/ directories in it? The ISO
> I downloaded doesn't.

They are on the 3-rd disk

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damjan

"Damjan" typed:
> Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:
>> Does disk-1 have bootdisk/ and rootdisks/ directories in it? The ISO
>> I downloaded doesn't.
>
> They are on the 3-rd disk

I guess, then, I will have to use the the boot- and root-diskettes
from the 10.0 ISO to kick-start the installation setup.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan

>>> Does disk-1 have bootdisk/ and rootdisks/ directories in it? The ISO
>>> I downloaded doesn't.
>>
>> They are on the 3-rd disk
>
> I guess, then, I will have to use the the boot- and root-diskettes
> from the 10.0 ISO to kick-start the installation setup.

Look at isolinux/sbootmgr/ on the first CD if your computer's BIOS can't
boot from a CD. There's also a README.txt file there.

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damjan

"Damjan" typed:
> Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:
>> I guess, then, I will have to use the the boot- and root-diskettes
>> from the 10.0 ISO to kick-start the installation setup.
>
> Look at isolinux/sbootmgr/ on the first CD if your computer's BIOS can't
> boot from a CD. There's also a README.txt file there.

Almost all of the systems in our GNU/Linux lab don't have CD-ROMs
installed. I install slackware on them over NFS and that, needless to
say, requires one to kick-start the setup using boot floppies.

I will have a look at the README.txt file in the 10.1 ISO, though.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan