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<H4><A NAME=SECTION00414410000000000000>2.1.4.4.1 Creating the boot and root floppies</A></H4>
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You must create floppies from the bootdisk and rootdisk images that
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you downloaded (or have on CD-ROM), no matter what type of installation
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you will be doing.
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On an MS-DOS system, you must uncompress the bootdisk and
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rootdisk images using <tt>GZIP.EXE</tt>. For example, if you're
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using the <tt>bare.gz</tt> bootdisk image, issue the MS-DOS command:
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<P><TT> C:<code>\</code>> GZIP -D BARE.GZ
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which will uncompress <tt>bare.gz</tt> and leave you with the file
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<tt>bare</tt>. If you are installing from CD-ROM, you can copy
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the bootdisk image (such as <tt>bare.gz</tt>) to you hard drive,
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and run <tt>GZIP.EXE</tt> from the CD-ROM to uncompress it.
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You must similarly uncompress the rootdisk image. For
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example, if you are using the rootdisk <tt>color144.gz</tt>, issue the
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command:
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<P><TT> C:<code>\</code>> GZIP -D COLOR144.GZ
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which will uncompress the file and leave you with <tt>color144</tt>.
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Next, you must have two <em>high-density</em> MS-DOS formatted floppies.
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(They must be of the same type; that is, if your boot floppy drive is
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a 3.5" drive, both floppies must be high-density 3.5"
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disks.) You will use <tt>RAWRITE.EXE</tt> to write the boot and rootdisk
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images to the floppies.
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Issue the command:
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<P><TT> C:<code>\</code>> RAWRITE
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Answer the prompts for the name of the file to write (such as <tt>bare</tt>,
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or <tt>color144</tt>)
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and the floppy to write it to (such as <tt>A:</tt>). <tt>RAWRITE</tt> will copy
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the file, block-by-block, directly to the floppy. Also use <tt>RAWRITE</tt>
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for the root disk image. When you're done, you'll
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have two floppies: one containing the boot disk, the other containing
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the root disk. Note that these two floppies will no longer be readable by
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MS-DOS (they are ``Linux format'' floppies, in some sense).
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Be sure that you're using brand-new, error-free floppies. The floppies
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must have no bad blocks on them.
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Note that you do not need to be running MS-DOS in order to install
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Slackware. However, running MS-DOS makes it easier to create the boot and
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root floppies, and it makes it easier to install the software (as you can
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install directly from an MS-DOS partition on your system). If you are not
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running MS-DOS on your system, you can use someone else's MS-DOS system just
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to create the floppies, and install from there.
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It is not necessary to use <tt>GZIP.EXE</tt> and <tt>RAWRITE.EXE</tt> under
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MS-DOS to create the boot and root floppies, either. You can use the
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<tt>gzip</tt> and <tt>dd</tt> commands on a UNIX system to do the same job.
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(For this, you will need a UNIX workstation with a floppy drive,
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of course.) For example, on a Sun workstation with the floppy drive on
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device <tt>/dev/rfd0</tt>, you can use the commands:
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<P><TT> <PRE>$ gunzip bare.gz
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$ dd if=bare of=/dev/rfd0 obs=18k
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</PRE>
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<P></TT>
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You must provide the appropriate block size argument (the <tt>obs</tt> argument)
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on some workstations (e.g., Suns) or this will fail. If you have problems
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the man page for <tt>dd</tt> will be instructive.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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