Welcome to the Walnut Creek Slackware Linux 3.0.0 CDROM ------------------------------------------------------- README.TXT The Walnut Creek Slackware Linux 3.0.0 CDROM Readme file. README30.TXT Linux Slackware CDROM installation instruction. Some directories on this cdrom aren't accessable from the MSDOS view program. READ THIS FILE FIRST! It will tell how to generate boot and root floppy discs needed to install Slackware Linux. BOOT AND ROOT DISKS: -------------------- You'll need to make one boot and one root disk before you can install Linux on your machine. You can make these disks directly from this program by moving into the directories below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- bootdsks.12/ The 1.2 megabyte (5.25") bootdisks for installation. bootdsks.144/ The 1.44 megabyte (3.5") bootdisks for installation. rootdsks/ The rootdisks for installation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOTING.TXT This file contains information about how to fix a system that won't boot. INSTALL.TXT Matt Welsh's Linux Installation HOWTO. This is a document explaining how to install Linux. It's geared more toward obtaining and installing Slackware from the Internet FTP site, but still contains useful information for the Linux beginner. LOWMEM.TXT What to do if you run into problems due to low memory. FAQ.TXT Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. UPGRADE.TXT Trying to upgrade to ELF Slackware from a.out Slackware. docs/ This directory contains the full set of Linux HOWTOs, documents that cover most common Linux maintenance tasks. In addition, you'll find documentation for the MS-DOS VIEW.EXE program, plus our catalog in several languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- contents/ A list of the files in each installable software package. contrib/ This directory contains extra packages for Slackware, such as the Andrew User Interface System, GNU Fortran 77, GNU Common LISP, GNU gnat (Ada), GNU Pascal, NCSA httpd, ircII, Lucid Emacs, SLiRP (a program you can run on a remote Unix host to emulate a SLIP/CSLIP account), and more. filename.txt A list of all file names on the disc. source/ These are the sources to the slackware distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- install/ This directory contains RAWRITE, GZIP, and FIPS. These are tools that you might find handy if you're running MS-DOS. GZIP is a Unix-compatible compession/decompression utility. RAWRITE allows you to dump a disk image file onto a floppy disk. FIPS lets you shrink the size of an existing MS-DOS partition to make room for a Linux partition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- sunsite/ This is the first part of the SunSITE Linux archives from sunsite.unc.edu. This part of the archive contains Linux documentation, kernel patches, the Linux Software Map which indexes many of the Linux programs out on the net, and the contents of the Incoming directory when the archive snapshot was made.