yes....as I don't own a hardware synth, this is exactly how I installed slackware 12.0 the important file to start with is on the linux install disk, slackware/a/pkgtools-12.0.0-noarch-4.tgz assuming you're using slackware 12... in that package is a /sbin/installpkg script you need set up your partitions, mount the one you want to use as / somewhere, and run that script with the following options: installpkg -root <path to /} <path to tgz file in a directory>*.tgz so for example, assuming you have mounded your / partition on /mnt/slackware, and have the slackware disk mounted at /mnt/cdrom, installpkg -root /mnt/slackware /mnt/cdrom/slackware/a/*.tgz since you're running this from another distro it might give you a few errors because things aren't where slackware expects them, that's ok because you're going to do it again... once those all finish, mount bind proc into the new root, mount -o bind /proc /mnt/slackware/proc and also the slackware install disk mount -o bind /mnt/cdrom /mnt/slackware/mnt/cdrom then chroot into the new root chroot /mnt/slackware /bin/bash cd /mnt/cdrom/slakware/a installpkg *.tgz when that finishes cd .. and repeat the process with all the package series folders you want. You can skip k, kde and kdei. k is just kernel source and if you plan on making your own kernel you can still skip because its 2.6.21.5, might as well get 2.6.21.6... so from within a/ ap/ d/ e/ f/ / n/ t/ tcl/ x/ xap/ and y/ run installpkg *.tgz you'll also have to put your chosen kernel in place, configure lilo, set a root password, and copy your timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. Oh and of course configure your fstab...can't forget to do that... that's the basic slackware install...as far as getting a speakup-patched kernel if you don't use the one on slackware's disk, a software synth, and all that working that's pretty much the same as any other time you set that stuff up so i won't repeat how to do them... I think that's everything.... Katie On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 22:48 -0400, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Arthur, > > It may take some playing around in the final steps, but slackware > packages are simple tar gzip files with directories relative to root, > and each package has an install script inside the archive. So you > should be able to create a partition for slackware, extract the > files there, and run the scripts. If you use the chroot command > you can "change root" to the target partition and fool linux into > believing it is root. For further inspiration on this, see how the > linuxfromscratch process creates a new linux system in this > manner. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
