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From: uatech on 1 Mar 2010 06:13
Hi. Making a jump from slackware 10 to 13. I found that there is no
more rootdisks/
directory with install.1 and install.2 in it. The reason I need them
is that my box doesn't boot
from CD (take it as "no CDROM at all"), but I have two partitions, say
hda2 and hda3. The
hda3 one is currently mounted as /home, and I want to keep it. I
placed there
slackware-13.0-install-d{1..3}.iso. Now I need the installer/setup to
pick the images up.
Thank you.
From: Auric__ on 1 Mar 2010 08:23
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:13:37 GMT, uatech wrote:

> Hi. Making a jump from slackware 10 to 13. I found that there is no
> more rootdisks/
> directory with install.1 and install.2 in it. The reason I need them
> is that my box doesn't boot
> from CD (take it as "no CDROM at all"), but I have two partitions, say
> hda2 and hda3. The
> hda3 one is currently mounted as /home, and I want to keep it. I
> placed there
> slackware-13.0-install-d{1..3}.iso. Now I need the installer/setup to
> pick the images up.

It's a kernel problem. 2.6 doesn't support booting from floppy any more (not
officially, and maybe not at all). Smart Boot Manager can boot CDs on systems
that otherwise don't support CD booting. It can be found in the first ISO
(look in /isolinux/sbootmgr), or else get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/files/

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That's an entirely valid perspective.
From: Bartosz Oudekerk on 1 Mar 2010 10:59
uatech <bsd_punk(a)bigmir.net> typed on 2010-03-01:
> Hi. Making a jump from slackware 10 to 13. I found that there is no
> more rootdisks/
> directory with install.1 and install.2 in it. The reason I need them
> is that my box doesn't boot
> from CD (take it as "no CDROM at all")

Can't you boot from USB? That's what I've been using for machines
without CD/DVD drives.

See:
usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT

Regards,
--
Bartosz Oudekerk
From: uatech on 1 Mar 2010 13:00
Thank you for answering. I'll have to burn those ISO's on another
machine
than. The target one is just too old and outdated. It doesn't
recognize CD-R
disks and doesn't boot from USB flash-cards. That's the punishment for
not
updating the system. :) (Well, the flash-card booting depends on BIOS
I
guess.) Cheers!
From: Auric__ on 1 Mar 2010 13:56
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:00:32 GMT, uatech wrote:

> Thank you for answering. I'll have to burn those ISO's on another
> machine
> than. The target one is just too old and outdated. It doesn't
> recognize CD-R
> disks and doesn't boot from USB flash-cards. That's the punishment for
> not
> updating the system. :) (Well, the flash-card booting depends on BIOS
> I
> guess.) Cheers!

Extract the ISOs to a partition and then point lilo at the appropriate
kernel. This post will tell you how:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/70283f990895f158

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http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine
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