These are root-install disks for Slackware 2.3.0. You will need one of these disks to install Linux. The disk is created by uncompressing the image with GZIP.EXE. (Example: GZIP -d colrlite.gz), and then writing the image out with RAWRITE.EXE. RAWRITE is interactive and reasonably user-friendly. Here's a description of the choices: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.2 MB drives: (NOTE: If you have a 1.44 MB second floppy drive, you can use the 1.44 MB root disks in it) colrlite.gz: A root-install disk for 1.2 MB floppy drives. This disk uses the new full-screen color install program. The keytable support that is present in color144 was removed so this could fit on a 1.2 MB disk. 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. :^) umsdos12.gz: A version of colrlite 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. tty12.gz: A root-install disk for 1.2 MB floppy drives. This contains new versions of the tty-based install scripts from previous Slackware releases. All the new keymaps should be supported. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------