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I am trying to find a way to install Slackware 10.2 from ftp. I don't have a burner in this laptop so I can't install it that way. I found some floppy images on Sorceforge for installing over a network, but they are for older versions and did not work with 10.x. If there is nothing like this for 10.x then I might try to make my own.

Thought I would give an update.

Digiital was kind enough to show me how to use google (hehe), so I got some floppies from here. Booted from the floppies, all went well. I setup the partitions and network, typed modprobe ftpfs as per the instructions but ftpfs was not there. I finally found the ftpfs.o.gz file on the floppy, gunziped it and insmoded ftpfs with a warning about kernel taint. Typed setup and selected ftp install from the sources list, filled out the info and got an error about wrong fs type. I still have not been able to get it to work.

Further updates to follow.

I now have slack 10.1 running on a 600mz P3, 256mb ram, 60gig 7200rpm drive. It is truely fast now, I bet firefox loads 2 times faster than on Debian. Anyway I thought I would go thru the steps that I took so that the next person won't have to.

If you need some more info this site has a few more instructions.

1. Download the boot disk from here Boot Disk

2. Download the install.1 disk

3. Download modified install.2 disk

4. Download modified network.dsk

5. Burn the disk images to floppy using dd if=(path to image to burn) of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024, do this for every disk image.

6. Boot from the boot disk and follow instructions as you change disks to get to the root login prompt.

7. At the prompt type cfdisk or fdisk to setup partitions and write the table to
disk.

8. Back at the prompt type (network) to setup the network card.

9. After the network card is setup, mount the network.dsk floppy and navigate to the directory containing the gziped ftpfs module and copy it to the root dir.

10. Gunzip the module file and insmod ftpfs.so.

11. Type setup and follow the instructions for a ftp install. You will need the IP address of the server you intend to use because DNS does not work.

Now that you have the setup system configured you will follow the instructions for installing Slack 10.1. I recommend you use the expert or menu choises for installation.