Slackware HD install?


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Anyone have a good read of know is this able? I've been with Linux for well over 3 years and have not taken a serious note on slackware, sticking to mandrake and now fedora. Seeing dropline gnome, I'd like to try to get slack going. My cd-rw is fried so I can't burn the disc, i did a HD install with fedora selecting my partition as the source. Wonder is slack can do the same? Booting from a floppy and do a install from there.

I found the link in the FAQ! Guess I've not search that well.

http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=installation#1

Question for Slackers,

Do I really ned all 4 disc? I'm on a 512K/256K and getting almost 3GB gonna take a long while. There's the source disc right? Which I don't need?

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slack is only 2 discs and yea you can do an install from another partition if you'd like, slack 2 has all the extras and stuff checkinstall which i use daily when compiling packages

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Where does Disc 1 takes me to? I read up bout it, I assume it takes me to a installed system without the GUI? I don't think I need much stuff from Disc 2 eh? Could d/l those needed dependency later. I read a little bout using pkginstall, and the dependency of Dropline. Do I need to pkginstall those dependency myself? Will slackware warn me of dependency issues and prompt me to install those first? Much like yum/apt?

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you could install the barebones with slack cd 1, and then use wget to get the dropline installer and that will download and install all packages needed to get dropline gnome up and running

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