	DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING SLS

With the exception of disks a1 and a2, all of the SLS diskettes can be
made by writing the contents of their respective directories to a
MS-DOS diskette, using standard MS-DOS tools.  For this reason, all
of the files in the SLS directories obey the 8.3 filename length
restrictions imposed by MS-DOS.

Thus, all of the files in the a3 directory should be copied to a
single floppy disk labeled a3; all of the files in the a4 directory
should be copied to a single floppy disk labeled a4; and so on.
It doesn't matter whether the floppies are 3 or 5 inch floppies;
however, they do need to be the high density 1.2 meg or 1.44 meg size.

[For advanced users only: Note that it is also possible to write the
SLS disketts using one of the native Linux filesystems; either the
minix or ext filesystems.  The advantage of doing this is that it will
be slightly faster to read them.  The disadvantage is that MS-DOS will
not be able to manipulate those floppies; indeed, you will not be able
to create them unless you already have Linux up and running on your
system.  If you only have MS-DOS available to you, just ignore this
paragraph.]

SLS disks a1 and a2 can not be MS-DOS filesystem disks.  Thus, they
are distributed as image files; since their size is 1.2 meg, they can
be written to either a 3 inch or 5 inch high-density floppy.  If you
are accessing this distribution from a Unix or Linux system, use the
dd command to copy the image file to the floppy:

dd if=a1 of=/dev/floppy bs=16k

If you are accessing this distribution from a MS-DOS system, use the
RAWRITE program found in the dosutils directory.

After you have created all of the SLS flopies you need, follow the
directions in the README file to actually install Linux on your hard
disk.  Good luck!


