Bill,
To edit a Slackware root disk you first decompress it `gunzip color.gz`,
add loopback support `insmod loop`, set the loop device up `losetup color
/dev/loop0` and then mount the disk `mount -t minix /dev/loop0 /mnt`. The
boot disk is a lilo minix uncompressed disk. The pcmcia and network disks
are uncompressed on msdos fs.
You might want to share your new disks with the folks at slackware.com.
BTW, I'll post those images up somewhere if you'd like a home for them.
Josh
"Bill Layer" <b.layer@vikingelectronics.com>
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10/02/00 03:12 PM
To: linux-parport@gear.torque.net
cc:
Subject: [PARPORT] Slack 7.1 ppSCSI bootdisk
Hello,
I have made a custom LILO boot disk for Slackware 7.1 (2.2.16) which
allows
one to perform the install over a parallel-port SCSI adapter, such as the
Trantor t348 Mini-SCSI. I have used this method to install Slackware onto
several machines with no other options, it works very well - but a little
slow in some cases.
Is anyone interested in obtaining images of the "Slackware Linux ppSCSI
Custom LILO Bootdisk" ?
Note: there are two disks; one with the boot image, and one with the
ppSCSI
modules which must be manually insmod after bootup. If someone knows how
to
modify the Slackware color.gz rootdisk so that the modules are contained
therein and loaded on boot by default, I would appreciate this info.
Bill Layer
Sales Technician
<b.layer@vikingelectronics.com>
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