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<H4><A NAME=SECTION00414430000000000000>2.1.4.4.3 Preparing for floppy installation</A></H4>
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If you wish to install Slackware from floppies instead of the hard drive,
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you'll need to have one blank, MS-DOS formatted floppy for each Slackware
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disk that you downloaded. These disks must be high-density format.
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The <tt>A</tt> disk set (disks <tt>A1</tt> through <tt>A3</tt>) may be either
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3.5" or 5.25" floppies. However, the rest of the disk
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sets must be 3.5" disks. Therefore, if you only have a 5.25"
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floppy drive, you'll need to borrow a 3.5" drive from someone in
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order to install disk sets other than <tt>A</tt>. (Or, you can install
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from the hard drive, as explained in the previous section.)
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To make the disks, simply copy the files from each Slackware directory onto
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an MS-DOS formatted floppy, using the MS-DOS <tt>COPY</tt> command. As so:
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<P><TT> C:<code>\</code>> COPY A1<code>\</code>*.* A:
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will copy the contents of the <tt>A1</tt> disk to the floppy in drive <tt>A:</tt>.
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You should repeat this for each disk that you downloaded.
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You do <em>not</em> need to modify or uncompress the files on the disks
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in any way; you merely need to copy them to MS-DOS floppies. The Slackware
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installation procedure takes care of uncompressing the files for you.
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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