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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>We use Slackware 9.0 on the MVWT robots<br /> <br /> === Preparing a distribution on 1GB Flash ===<br /> <br /> Boot Slackware 9.0 from CDROM (or floppy)<br /> * hit &#039;Enter&#039; at startup, then &#039;F12&#039; to get custom boot device, then &#039;3&#039; to boot from CDROM<br /> * At boot prompt, enter &#039;bare.i ide=nodma&#039;. This allows the flash drive partitions to be scanned properly<br /> <br /> Run fdisk to partition the flash drive<br /> * /dev/hdd1 - ext2, remainder of disk<br /> * /dev/hdd2 - ext2, 130 blocks for 256M disks, 256 blocks for 1G disks<br /> <br /> Mount the slackware distribution from the hard disk<br /> * Mounting from CDROM doesn&#039;t seem to work (??)<br /> * &#039;mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/root&#039;<br /> * Source distribution in is /mnt/root/tmp/slackware-9.0/slackware<br /> <br /> Run &#039;setup&#039; to install slackware on flash drive (/dev/hdd)<br /> * Use /dev/hdd2 as swap<br /> * Use /dev/hdd1 as root</div>

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