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?). Write all of the directories and files in the slakware/ directory onto the tape. This is the command that would write out the tape: cd slakware tar cv */* You may also need to specify the tape device: tar cvf /dev/nst0 */* The files and directories should be tarred onto the tape. You'll see the directories and filenames listed as they are written to the tape: a1/aaa_base.tgz a1/aoutlibs.tgz a1/bash.tgz a1/cpio.tgz a1/devs.tgz a1/diska1 a1/etc.tgz a1/grep.tgz a1/maketag a1/maketag.ez a1/tagfile a1/tagfile.org a1/tagfile.pat a2/bin.tgz a2/diska2 [ ... and so on ] 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