Slackware IDE bootdisks ----------------------- This directory contains a collection of batch files used to create Slackware bootdisks. To create a disk, just put a formatted floppy disk in your drive and choose one of the options listed below to make the disk. Read all of the choices carefully to pick the disk that best matches the hardware in your machine. NOTE: Using the VIEW program to create the Slackware bootdisks may not work under Windows95 and 98. If you're running Windows, you should restart your machine in MS-DOS mode before creating a bootdisk. NOTE: All of these disks contain support for IDE hard drives and CDROM drives. If you have additional equipment, look for the disk that supports it. Name Additional driver support ---- ------------------------- aztech.bat CD-ROM drives: Aztech CDA268-01A, Orchid CD-3110, Okano/Wearnes CDD110, Conrad TXC, CyCDROM CR520, CR540. bare.bat This is the disk to use for installation on most IDE based PCs. It includes support for IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives. Most CD-ROM drives made today fall into this catagory. bareapm.bat This disk is the same as the bare.i image, with the addition of Advanced Power Management support. This is usually used on laptops to check the battery level, or to put the machine in standby or sleep mode. On machines that aren't laptops, it can cause booting problems. This is the correct disk to use for a PCMCIA install. cdu31a.bat Sony CDU31/33a CD-ROM. cdu535.bat Sony CDU531/535 CD-ROM. cm206.bat Philips/LMS cm206 CD-ROM with cm260 adapter card. goldstar.bat Goldstar R420 CD-ROM (sometimes sold in a 'Reveal Multimedia Kit'). isp16.bat Supports ISP16/MAD16/Mozart CD-ROM drives. Boot time command line options (or 'append=' options in /etc/lilo.conf) are: isp16=,,, Valid values for drive_type include: Sanyo, Panasonic (same as Sanyo), Sony and Mitsumi. Default values are: port=0x340, irq=0, dma=0, drive_type=Sanyo. lowmem.bat This is a really stripped-down Linux kernel which might be useful for installing on IDE systems with a low amount of RAM (less than 8MB). If bare.i runs into problems, you might try this. NOTE: On systems with extremely low memory (4MB), ZipSlack plus the fourmeg.zip add-on (found in the zipslack directory) may boot and run even in cases where lowmem.i doesn't. mcd.bat NON-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM support. mcdx.bat Improved NON-IDE Mitsumi CD-ROM support. net.bat An IDE/ATAPI bootdisk with Ethernet support. Use this for installing over a network to an IDE hard drive. NOTE: net.i, while a nice shortcut if it works, does not work on every machine, nor does it include every Linux network driver. Because of the large number of devices it looks for, it can hang the machine or cause other problems if it misidentifies something. This is an unavoidable risk when probing for hardware on the PC platform. If you run into problems with net.i (or it doesn't see your network card), don't panic, just use a disk with less drivers. If you're not installing over the network, bare.i is probably the right choice. If you need network support, use bare.i, plus put 'insmod' and the required network modules on another floppy to load before running setup. The README files in the ../modules directory explain this process in detail. This disk also includes PLIP support, but you'll need to pass a parameter to the kernel to tell the parallel port driver which IRQ to use. For example, if you want to use a parallel port on 0x378, IRQ 7, you would use this command on the bootdisk's 'boot:' prompt: ramdisk parport=0x378,7 You may also use this command to make the driver autodetect your port and IRQ: ramdisk parport=auto no_kbd.bat This version of bare.i is a workaround for a problem: Some newer P2/Celeron systems have been known to reboot themselves as the kernel is starting up. This seems to happen as the keyboard LEDs are reset. The no_kbd.i does not reset the keyboard LEDs, and will boot correctly on most machines with this symptom. A BIOS upgrade from the motherboard manufacturer may fix the problem. no_pci.bat If you're having problems with a hang during PCI probing, try this IDE-supporting bootdisk without PCI BIOS support. Some old PCI motherboards have BIOS bugs and may crash if "PCI bios support" is enabled, but they run fine without this option. In many cases the BIOS can be fixed with a flash update from the motherboard manufacturer's web site. optics.bat Optics Storage 8000 AT CD-ROM (the 'DOLPHIN' drive). pportide.bat This is an extended version of bare.i will support for a wide variety of parallel-port IDE devices. Supports parallel-port products from MicroSolutions, Hewlett-Packard, SyQuest, Imation, Avatar, and other manufacturers. sanyo.bat Sanyo CDR-H94A CD-ROM support. sbpcd.bat Matsushita, Kotobuki, Panasonic, CreativeLabs (Sound Blaster), Longshine and Teac NON-IDE CD-ROM support. IMPORTANT! I can't possibly stress enough that this disk is *not* for IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives, which include nearly all of the drives made by these manufacturers recently. For IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives, use bare.i. smp.bat This disk is the same as the generic bare.i bootdisk, but adds support for motherboards with multiple CPUs. (symmetric multiprocessing, or SMP) xt.bat MFM (very very old) hard drive support.