Sun Aug 27 17:56:34 CDT 1995
Q: There are so many bootdisks! Which one should I use?
A: Here's a little table to help you decide. In each box, the best choice
will be at the top of the list. Other disks you might try if the recommended
choice doesn't work are preceded by a (*). If you can't install directly from
your CD-ROM, you might consider copying the disk directories onto your hard
drive on a DOS or HPFS partition and installing from there.
-- Pat
----------------\ Target hard drive type:
Slackware \
source on: \ IDE SCSI MFM
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Hard Drive | bare.i | Use a SCSI controller | xt.i
| | bootdisk from the list |
| | below. |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
SCSI CD-ROM | Use a SCSI | Use a SCSI controller |
| controller | bootdisk from the list |
| bootdisk from | below. |
| the list below.| |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM | bare.i | Use a SCSI controller |
| | bootdisk from the list |
| | below. |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Aztech, Orchid, | aztech.i | aztech.s |
Okano, Wearnes, | | |
Conrad, CyCDROM | | |
non-IDE CD-ROM | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Sony CDU31a, | cdu31a.i | cdu31a.s |
Sony CDU33a CD-ROM| | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Sony CDU531, | cdu535.i | cdu535.s |
Sony CDU535 CD-ROM| | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Philips/LMS cm206 | cm206.i | cm206.s |
CD-ROM | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Goldstar R420 | goldstar.i | goldstar.s |
CD-ROM | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Mitsumi non-IDE | mcdx.i | mcdx.s |
CD-ROM | mcd.i | mcd.i |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Optics Storage | optics.i | optics.s |
8000 AT CD-ROM | | |
("Dolphin") | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Sanyo CDR-H94A | sanyo.i | sanyo.s |
CD-ROM | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Matsushita, | sbpcd.i | sbpcd.s |
Kotobuki, | | |
Panasonic, | | |
CreativeLabs | | |
(Sound Blaster), | | |
Longshine and | | |
Teac non-IDE | | |
CD-ROM | | |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
NFS | net | scsinet |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
Tape | bare (for | Use a SCSI controller | xt.i (for
| floppy tape) | bootdisk from the | floppy tape)
| | list below. |
| For SCSI tape, | |
| use one of the | |
| SCSI bootdisks | |
| listed below. | |
| | |
-------------------+----------------+---------------------------------------
SCSI controller bootdisks: 7000fast.s, advansys.s, aha152x.s, aha1542.s,
aha1740.s, aha2x4x.s, am53c974.s, buslogic.s,
dtc3280.s, eata_dma.s, eata_isa.s, eata_pio.s,
fdomain.s, in2000.s, iomega.s, n53c406a.s,
n_5380.s, n_53c7xx.s, pas16.s, qlog_fas.s,
qlog_isp.s, seagate.s, trantor.s, ultrastr.s,
ustor14f.s
If you have no idea which SCSI controller your machine has, you can also
try the generic SCSI bootdisk "scsi.s". You can determine what controller
type you have by watching the boot messages. Then, you should make the
bootdisk that matches your controller and use that to install. (Since the
scsi.s kernel is loaded with SCSI drivers, it consumes quite a bit of memory
that the disks designed for a single SCSI controller do not)