[ale] Slackware to CD

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

I've seen several answers to this so far, but nobody has pointed out the
obvious....

THE SLACKWARE FILES ARE 8.3 ALREADY.

...thus the distribution directory is slakware, not slackware.

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Gary S. MacKay wrote:

> Well, hind site is always 20/20 they say. I've just downloaded the entire
> Slackware-4.0 directory. Yes, all 900+ megs of it on a 56k modem. (It took
> almost 5 days!) I wanted to abort it but as it keep going, it became a
> challenge to see how far it would go!
> 
> 	Anyway, I went to burn a CD so I can install it, and realized that
> the Adaptec Ez-cd software will burn an ISO9660 disc, but only with 8.3
> filenames. If I set it to Joliet, it will use the long filenames, but I 
> doubt that Linux will read it right at install time. Now what do I do? 
> 
> I'm going to try to mount it via NFS so I can finish the install, but I
> would like to get this onto a CD somehow. Any ideas?
> 
> - Gary
> 
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