Sun Mar 19 19:12:16 PST 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
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Floppy:       | bare             | scsi             | xt
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Hard Drive:   | bare             | scsi             | xt
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
SCSI CD-ROM:  | scsi             | scsi             |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Mitsumi CD:   | mitsumi          | mitsumi          |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Aztech,       | aztcd            | aztcd            |
Orchid,       |                  |                  |
Okano,        |                  |                  |
Wearnes CD    |                  |                  |
with interface|                  |                  |
card:         |                  |                  |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sony CDU31a   | cdu31a           | cdu31a           |
or CDU33a CD: | * old31a         | * old31a         |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Soundblaster, | sbpcd            | sbpcd            |
Panasonic,    |                  |                  |
Kotobuki,     |                  |                  |
Matsushita,   |                  |                  |
TEAC-55A,     |                  |                  |
& Lasermate   |                  |                  |
CD-ROM:       |                  |                  |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Sony 535/531  | cdu535           | cdu535           |
CD-ROM:       |                  |                  |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Most IDE/ATAPI| idecd            | idecd            |
CD-ROMs:      |                  |                  |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
NFS:          | net              | scsinet1  (see   |
             |                  | list 1 below)    |
             |                  |                  |
             |                  | scsinet2  (see   |
             |                  | list 2 below)    |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------
Tape:         | bare (for floppy | scsi             | xt (for floppy tape)
             |       tape)      |                  |
             | scsi (for SCSI   |                  |
             |       tape)      |                  |
--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------

SCSI DRIVERS:

List 1:                              List 2:
Adaptec 152x/1542/1740/274x/284x     Generic NCR5380
Buslogic                             NCR 53c7,8xx
EATA-DMA (DPT/NEC/AT&T)              Always IN2000
Seagate ST-02                        Pro Audio Spectrum 16
Future Domain TMC-8xx, 16xx          QLogic
                                    Trantor T128/T128F/T228
                                    Ultrastor
                                    7000 FASST

Note: The 'scsi' disk and the disks with non-SCSI CD-ROM drivers contain all
the SCSI drivers from both lists 1 and 2.  The 'scsinet1' and 'scsinet2' disks
should really only be used to install via NFS.

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