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#### 2.1.4.4.2 Preparing for installation from hard drive

If you're planning on installing the Slackware software directly from the hard drive (which is often faster and more reliable than a floppy installation), you will need an MS-DOS partition on the system that you're installing Slackware to.

Note: If you plan to install Slackware from an MS-DOS partition, that partition must NOT be compressed with DoubleSpace, Stacker, or any other MS-DOS drive compression utility. Linux currently cannot read DoubleSpace/Stacker MS-DOS partitions directly. (You can access them via the MS-DOS Emulator, but that is not an option when installing the Linux software.)

To prepare for hard drive installation, simply create a directory on the hard drive to store the Slackware files. For example,

`C:`\`> MKDIR SLACKWAR`

will create the directory `C:`\`SLACKWAR` to hold the Slackware files. Under this directory, you should create subdirectories `A1`, `A2`, and so on, for each disk set that you downloaded, using the `MKDIR` command. All of the files from the `A1` disk should go into the directory `SLACKWAR`\`A1`, and so forth.

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