These are root-install disks for Slackware 2.1.0. You will need one of these disks to install Linux. The disk is created by uncompressing the image with GZIP.EXE. (Example: GZIP -d color144.gz), and then writing the image out with RAWRITE.EXE. RAWRITE is interactive and reasonably user-friendly. Here's a description of the choices: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.44 MB drives: color144.gz: A root-install disk for 1.44 MB floppy drives. This disk uses the new full-screen color install program. NOTE: This version of the install system has some known bugs. It is, in particular, not forgiving of extra keystrokes entered between screens. It is nice to look at, though. :^) umsds144.gz: A version of color144 used to install using UMSDOS - a filesystem that allows you to install Linux into a directory on an existing MS-DOS partition. Not as fast as ext2 or xiafs, but it works, and you don't have to repartition your drive. See README.UMS for more information. tty144.gz: A root-install disk for 1.44 MB floppy drives. This contains new versions of the tty-based install scripts from previous Slackware releases. All the new keymaps should be supported. tape144.gz: A semi-experimental disk designed to support installation from tape. See the file README_T.APE for more information about this disk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------