Port of Slackware to the ARM processor
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armedslack-??-???-??.tar:
 tar of the installed ARMedslack system at the
 current date specified by the file name.
 This does NOT contain the individual package archives.

 This IS, however, a fully bootable system.

 /etc/fstab is that:
    /dev/hdb1 is swap
    /dev/hdb2 is / (ext3)

slackbt.zip:
  RISC OS Linux bootware.


In order to make use of the archive, you should get
a blank IDE hard disk and put it into an existing
Linux server (any distribution will be fine).
Let's say this new disk is /dev/hdb:

 # fdisk /dev/hdb
   Set partition 1 as ~100MB SWAP
   Set partition 2 as ext3 (about 1GB will do, but only ~500MB required)

 # mkswap /dev/hdb1
 # mke2fs -j /dev/hdb2
 # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hd
 # tar pjxf armedslack-??-???-??.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/hd/

You then need to get slackbt.zip onto the StrongARM RiscPC and
extract the contents (but still retain the RISC OS filetype information).
Once you've done this, and attached the hard disk to the RiscPC
(after removing it from the Linux PC), you can run
SlackBoot

Linux should boot.
If all goes well you should be dropped into a normal login prompt.
login: root
password: password



Stuart Winter <stuart@armedslack.org>