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 
 RJT>> a way to record it to HD.  I seem to be somewhat lacking in 
 RJT>> terms of functional software in that department,  for some
 RJT>> reason...

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

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

 RT> Might have missed putting it on then, look for ecasound, and if I 
 RT> remember correctly there is a "sound" directory there somewheres, 
 RT> if not, don't panic  I am busy compiling a Linux sound 
 RT> utilities CD, too many bits an pieces  on too many CD's, and it 
 RT> will make my life easier to collect then all in one  place, when
 RT> that is finished, I'll write you one as well.

It's probably on there,  but my mind has been more preoccupied with the
upgrade lately.  I've still got my list of files that will be stomped on up
on the other screen here.    Once I get past this,  I'll have a
look at those discs again and see what I can find.

 RT>  

 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.

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

 RT> No doudt you are learning a lot, but it is taking time, and my 
 RT> objective is usually to get a system working/fixed as soon as 
 RT> possible. 

Yeah,  but it's *working* right now.  It may not be optimum,  but I can
still do a bunch of useful work on it.

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

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

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

 RT> Hmm ... not nice of them, that

I could be mistaken,  though -- I did see some scripts in there someplace
(in the kernels directory?) that look like they address the issue.

 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. :-)

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

 RT> That will depend on how long it takes you to sort out your 
 RT> problems, and how long before Slackware take to release Version
 RT> 9.0. 

I expect that the next step is to back up what I think might be in some
danger of getting overwritten,  and then just go ahead and do it.  Probably
this weekend,  the way things are looking.

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