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The root disk is the second diskette needed to install Slackware
Linux. This disk holds the setup program and all of the necessary
utilities to get Slackware up and running on your system. You create the
root disk in the same manner as the boot disk. That is, pick an image
and dump it to a floppy. The list below explains the different root disk
images available.
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| color.gz |
The menu-based color installation disk for 1.44 meg drives
Most users should use this rootdisk.
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| text.gz |
The terminal-based installation disk for 1.44 meg drives.
should use color.gz, but a few people have reported
problems with it on their system. If color.gz doesn't work
on your system, try text.gz.
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| umsdos.gz |
A version of the color.gz disk for installing with the
UMSDOS filesystem, which allows you to install Linux onto
a directory of an MS-DOS filesystem.
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| network.dsk |
This is a supplemental disk full of network driver modules.
It's for use with boot disks other than net.i, when you
want to do an NFS install. (net.i will also do NFS
installs, but may not support some hardware.)
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| pcmcia.dsk |
A supplemental disk with PCMCIA device support, for use
with laptop network cards and stuff. This is now the
only disk that supports PCMCIA hardware, but it may be
used with any boot/root disks (woohoo!)
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