On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, John Miskinis wrote: > > I wish to re-install slink on a partition, and my Thinkpad 560 > has no builtin CDROM drive. I am very close to getting a small > floppy linux system working that can talk to my SCSI CDROM. > > What is the best way to go about a (re)install? My initial > install(s) required me to copy the whole CD to a vfat partition > under Win95, and fix up symlinks, etc., and I do not wish to do > this all over again. > A slightly different approach to copying the whole CD to a *fat* partition is to copy it to a *ext2* partition. This can easily be done under linux (if your old slink installation is still running) otherwise you have to spend a little more time copying the stuff to a linux partition under windows.
If you have no linux partitions left then make one with a utility such as partition magic and format it, making sure it will be able to contain the entire CD (if I remember about 450-500Mb is plenty). Obtain the very useful utility explore2fs off the internet (I have lost the link but it is given in a previous posting I made to this mailing list some months ago) which will allow you to read and write to your linux partition as if it was a fat partition. This permits the filenames to be retained. Use the various boot disks to get to the linux installation screen. Do *not* mount your partition as you will find the partition is not used to install from but proceed with an install using a unmounted partition. Some of the instructions may be a little wrong as I have not done this procedure for some time, however the important details are there. Now you should be able to continue with no problems on your own. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Potato Linux Earthquake
