TAPE INSTALLATION ROOTDISK Here it is - a version of the install disk designed for installing Slackware from tape. I've tested on my Colorado Jumbo 250, but it should work for most floppy tape and SCSI tape drives. There's no reason it can't work for QIC-02 as well, but I haven't compiled a QIC-02 capable bootkernel (yet). Any of the bootkernel disks will work for floppy tape support. If you're installing from a SCSI drive, make sure you use a bootkernel with SCSI support. The tape must be written in GNU tar format (or a compatible block size with some other 'tar' - anyone know what that would be?). The "aaa_base.tgz" package from the A1 disk must be the first package written to the tape, and should be followed by whatever other packages you wish to install. All packages on the tape are installed automatically. This is the command that would write out the tape: tar cv *.tgz Since "aaa_base.tgz" is first in alphabetical order, the files are written to the tape in the proper order. Unlike installing from floppy disks, you don't need to install all the *.tgz files, or even all the directories. The only requirement is that 'aaa_base.tgz' must be the first package (*tgz file) written to the tape. Good luck, folks! This is pretty experimental still, so let me know how it works for you and if you have any suggestions for improvements. --- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com