Instructions for installing Slackware on machines with a 5.25" boot drive
and a 3.5" second floppy drive.
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5.25" boot drives even better supported in version 1.1.1 than they 
have been before. It is finally possible to install on a machine that has
only a 5.25" drive. Note however, that this doesn't mean it will be as easy 
as installing from 3.5", but if you install off of your hard drive it may
actually be easier.

The first 3 disks of Slackware Linux, the A disks, should all fit within
1.2M. To install them, you'll need a boot kernel, and a rootdisk. These can
be found under bootdisk/1_2meg. Read the README file in the bootdisk 
directory, it gives more information about the new bootdisks.

To make the boot kernel disk, copy the boot kernel of your choice to a floppy
using dd or RAWWRITE.EXE.

To make the root disk, write root12m to a floppy in the same way.

Use the boot kernel disk to boot the root12m disk, and install from there.
This will load the ramdisk. Once you have the "darkstar:" prompt you may
remove both disks from your machine and continue with the installation.

Once you've got the base system installed, you can install the rest of the
disks by downloaded them on to your harddrive and installing them from there.
Disk series other than A won't wit onto 1.2M disks.

I sincerely hope this helps!

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Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu