Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> The part I'm having a problem with at the moment is figuring out a way
 RJT> to record it to HD.  I seem to be somewhat lacking in terms of
 RJT> functional software in that department,  for some reason...

 RT> Hmm .... have a look at the CD's I sent you, you will find ecasound
 RT> there, a  good place to start, me thinks ...

Oh?  That's in there?  Cool,  I'll have to take a look.  I'd looked those
over not too long ago (within the past week or so,  I think) but I must
have missed that...

 RT> 

 RJT> I dunno,  I couldn't even *compile* it today -- got "permission
 RJT> denied" when I tried to run the Makefile!  As root!!!

 RT> See below ...

 RJT>> As it's not the only thing I'm having a problem running,  I'm not
 RJT>> faulting the program.  It's something else in the setup that's
 RJT>> gone screwy on me.  I think I may have a go at adding 8.1 to the
 RJT>> spare drive I have sitting here and see about getting away from
 RJT>> the hassles.

Can't do that,  though.

 RT>> From reading you comments on that elsewhere, I'd long ago done a 
 RT>> brand spanking new install and started from scratch. Only reason 
 RT>> I'd try and fix it was if I had the time and inclination for a 
 RT>> "learning" experience.

Well,  no doubt I'm learning a bit as I go along here!  Right now I'm
looking at packages,  and the tools that work with them,  which is one
*hell* of a difference from the win approach of "setup.exe" doing
it all and you have no clue as to what's going on.

 RT> Unfortunately I can't do that with the 8.1 disc I have here -- it's
 RT> missing a bunch of stuff,  like the directories that normally contain
 RT> the floppy images,  for example.

 RT> Have a look at that 8.1 CD, most recent distro's I have had a look
 RT> at will allow you to boot from a WIN98 boot disk, chage to the 
 RT> dosutils directory and run an "autoboot" or
"boot" batch file and 
 RT> load /start Linux via loadlin and setup from there, might be an 
 RT> option for you. 

There isn't any dosutils directory.  Just 3 -- isolinux, kernels, and
slackware.  There seems to be a *bunch* of stuff missing from this
particular disc...

 RT> Am waiting for Slackware 9.0 to  come out and will get a CD to 
 RT> play with, will also post you a copy. :-) 

Heh.  Perhaps I won't be running 8.1 very long.  :-)

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