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Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun!
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HOW TO MAKE A BOOTABLE SLACKWARE DVD ISO IMAGE
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To make a bootable Slackware install DVD, get into the top level Slackware
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directory (The one with ChangeLog.txt in it) and issue a command like this
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to build the ISO image in /tmp:
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mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware-dvd.iso \
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-R -J -A "Slackware Install" \
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-hide-rr-moved \
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-v -d -N \
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-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
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-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
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-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
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-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
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-m 'kde-l10n-*.tar.bz2' \
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-V "SlackDVD" .
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On my system, here's the command I'd use to burn the resulting DVD ISO:
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growisofs -speed=2 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=slackware-dvd.iso
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If your burner is not /dev/dvd, replace the device with the one your
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system uses.
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I find discs burned at 2x are more reliable than ones burned at higher
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speeds, but you may see completely different results depending on media
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and burner type. The -dvd-compat option is also used so that a complete
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lead-out is written to the media for maximum compatibility.
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Or, you can burn directly from the Slackware tree to a DVD(-/+)R(W):
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growisofs \
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-Z /dev/dvd \
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-R -J -A "Slackware Install" \
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-hide-rr-moved \
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-v -d -N \
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-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
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-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
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-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
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-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
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-m 'kde-l10n-*.tar.bz2' \
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-dvd-compat \
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-V "SlackDVD" .
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Note that the source files for the KDE language translations will not be
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included on these DVD images in order to keep them under the limit for
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a single-layer disc. If you are using double layer DVD media and want to
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burn the complete tree to your disc, remove the -m option line from the
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command.
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HOW TO MAKE A SET OF BOOTABLE / INSTALLABLE CDROMS
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This is a little bit more tricky. Step one will be to split the tree into
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portions that will fit on the media that you plan to burn to. The first
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disc must contain these directories:
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/isolinux/
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/kernels/
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/slackware/
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You'll need to make other /slackware/ directories on discs 2, 3, and maybe
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more, moving some of the disc series from disc 1 to other discs to make
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things fit. It is also possible to split a series to make more efficient
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use of the CD media. See the README_SPLIT.TXT example and instructional
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file in this directory for details about how to set that up.
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The rest of the splitting up of discs is left as an exercise for the reader.
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To make the first (bootable) ISO, a command like this is used within the
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directory where the disc tree is. Let's say the directory is 'd1' and you
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wish to output the ISO image in /tmp:
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cd d1
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mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware-install-1.iso \
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-R -J -A "Slackware Install 1" \
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-hide-rr-moved \
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-v -d -N \
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-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
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-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
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-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
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-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
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-V "SlackCD1" .
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Making a non-bootable disc is similar. Just omit a few options:
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cd d2
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mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware-install-2.iso \
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-R -J -A "Slackware Install 2" \
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-hide-rr-moved \
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-v -d -N \
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-V "SlackCD2" .
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To burn an ISO image to CD-R(W), the cdrecord command is used. For complete
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instructions, see the man page ('man cdrecord'). On my own machine where
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the burner is /dev/cdrw, disc one would be burned with the following command:
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cat /tmp/slackware-install-1.iso | cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw speed=10 fs=8m -tao -eject -data -
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As before, it's possible to burn from the disc trees without the intermediate
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step of creating iso images by omitting the -o option to mkisofs and piping
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the output directly to cdrecord:
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cd d1
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mkisofs \
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-R -J -A "Slackware Install 1" \
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-hide-rr-moved \
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-v -d -N \
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-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
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-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
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-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
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-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
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-V "SlackCD1" . | cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw speed=10 fs=8m -tao -eject -data -
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NOTES:
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The isolinux/isolinux.boot file will be created on the disc; it's not
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supposed to be in the source tree. I mention this only because so many
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people report the "missing" isolinux/isolinux.boot file as a bug.
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The "-boot-load-size 4" is actually not large enough to hold the isolinux
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boot loader, but many BIOS implementations are broken and will *only*
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accept "4". Evidently many newer, more correct BIOS implementations
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expect this and will continue to load the boot loader file until the
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EOF is reached. Anyway, previous uses of larger values were correct, but
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led to the Slackware ISO not booting on some machines which contained
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broken BIOS implementations. It is my hope that by using the incorrect
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value of 4 sectors that the ISO will boot on most (if not all) machines
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that are supposed to be able to boot from an ISO image.
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I don't know how to create a bootable Slackware ISO on operating systems
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other than Linux, but it should be easy to burn the Linux-created ISO with
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most CD burning software on any operating system.
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Enjoy!
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-P.
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