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- Q: I can't unzip the file -- it says I don't have enough memory!
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- A: This happens if you use a 16-bit unzipper. You must use a 32-bit version
- such as WinZip or PKZIP for Windows95 or NT. (of course, unzip for Linux
- also works fine :)
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- Q: All I have is DOS! Do you know of an unzipper that works with zipslack.zip
- for DOS or Windows 3.1?
-
- A: Yes, (for Win 3.x) I hear there's something called Zip Navigator.
-
- If you can't find that, here's how to unzip it under Linux.
-
- First, grab a bootdisk that works with your system.
-
- For an average IDE system:
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/bootdsks.144/bare.i
- For a SCSI system:
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/bootdsks.144/scsi.s
- For an IBM PS/2 microchannel bus machine:
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/bootdsks.144/ibmmca.s
- If you're unzipping the file to a parallel port Zip drive:
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/bootdsks.144/iomega.s
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- Then, you'll need the rescue disk. This is a small Linux system on a
- floppy disk. One of the utilities it includes is unzip. Here's where
- you can get the rescue disk image:
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- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/rootdsks/rescue.gz
-
- Boot the first disk (the bootdisk), and hit enter at the 'boot:' prompt.
- When prompted, insert the rootdisk (rescue.gz) and hit enter to load it.
-
- Log in as root.
-
- Now, you'll need to mount the DOS partition where the zipslack.zip file
- resides. If the final destination is a Zip disk, you might still just
- want to go ahead and unzip the file on your DOS partition, and then move
- the directory tree onto the Zip disk under DOS with XCOPY or a similar
- tool. If you're not sure what the name of your DOS partition is under
- Linux, use this command:
-
- fdisk -l | more
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- The partition name will be something like /dev/hda1. To mount the
- partition, use a command like this:
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- mount /dev/hda1 /mnt -t msdos
-
- Switch to the /mnt directory, and unzip the file:
-
- cd /mnt
- unzip zipslack.zip
-
- That should unzip the file. Now you're ready to hit crtl-alt-delete and
- reboot your machine. From there, follow the directions in README.1st to
- boot the Linux OS.
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- Q: Are there other ways to handle the problem of 16-bit unzippers
- failing to unzip ZIPSLACK.ZIP?
-
- A: Yes. Here's another way to work around it that one of our users
- reported:
-
- I had trouble unzipping - I don't have a win95 machine, and pkunzip
- for DOS croaked horribly. Info-zip unzip did a much better job, but
- died after about 3/4 of the unzip process (out of memory). So, I used
- a "zip splitter" to split the zipslack.zip into floppy sized bites
- (from Simtel, filename zc300.zip), then extracted each of the 26
- zips to the Zip disk. Booted like a champ, runs nice but slow on a 486/66
- with 12Mb ram.
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- Q: How do I add X to this?
-
- A: Assuming you've got the space to install it, download the X packages
- (the files ending in .tgz) from this directory:
-
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/slakware/x1/
-
- You might also grab the diskx1 file, which describes each of the
- packages. You can save disk space if you don't install all of the X
- servers (you only need the one for your video card), and you might
- also leave out extra fonts, old X shared libraries (oldlibs*.tgz),
- and possibly development tools if you're not planning to compile X
- software yourself. Once you've collected the packages you plan to
- install into a directory, run this to install them:
-
- installpkg *.tgz
-
- Before running X, you'll need to set it up with 'xf86config'.
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- Q: I get "unable to open virtual console" when I boot!
-
- A: You're probably not giving LINUX.BAT the correct partition name. If
- you really have no idea which one to use, you can try each of these.
- If it's on an IDE partition, it will almost definately be one of them:
-
- /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda6
- /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb3 /dev/hdb4 /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb6
- /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdc3 /dev/hdc4 /dev/hdc5 /dev/hdc6
- /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3 /dev/hdd4 /dev/hdd5 /dev/hdd6
-
- If your know which hard drive (not C:, D:, etc, but which number
- drive, 1, 2, 3, or 4) the partition is on, then you can narrow the
- list down quite a bit. The first IDE drive's partitions all start
- with /dev/hda, the second hard drive's partitions begin with /dev/hdb,
- and so on.
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