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i had been using the backpack drive successfully in dos/win95 alot, so i knew it should work in linux.
after lurking and learning lots of useful intricacies about the boot-root-process, i was now feeling prepared to tackle the slackware install...
oddly, in the end, i was never able to do the install without going to a second computer and copying the actual module objects. this meant finding a partition i could sacrifice to a quickie-install, altho now that i think about it maybe a live-install wouldve worked. i had tried copying the files from the /live directories while looking at the #2 disk in dos, but this didnt work.
to save you the heartache, ill link a quick zip-file that has all the stuff i copied onto a spare vfat module floppy. thus, it required 4 total floppies: 1 boot (bare.i), 2 roots (install.1 and .2), and this module floppy.

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getting backpack working

• first youll need to unzip the modules.zip file onto a spare floppy (i used a standard vfat floppy)
• fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 (linux)
• (the zipped and unzipped data will all fit on the floppy)
• mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt (the bare.i-process doesnt create subdirs under /mnt)
• cp modules.zip /mnt
• cd /mnt
• gunzip modules.zip
• ./script (i wrote a quickie script that should work when inside the mounted floppy)
• cd
• umount /mnt
• at this point you can check your cdrom by looking at the dmesg output or just trying to mount it!
• dmesg (should see stuff like bid_succ.txt)
• mount -t iso9660 /dev/pcd0 /mnt
• ls /mnt (hopefully the cd whirrs up and youll be looking at the slackware cdrom)
• umount /mnt (cuz the setup program needs to do its OWN mount command)
• fdisk/setup like the slackware directions tell you...
• ---notes
• i couldnt use the parport.i disk, because it loaded the bpck.o module into the kernel and i needed the bpck6.o module anyway
• the bottom of the backpack actually said it required the series-6 drivers