######################################################################## # 2020/07/06 - PsychOS486 1.2.5 - Source Mage idea isn't going to work # ######################################################################## I created a super compressed 'system.tar.xz' file for a theory using Source Mage to install what is essentially a backup of Slackware 14.1, but after digging around in the ISO's "/usr/share/smgl.install" directory, I may have no choice but to use a bzip2 file instead. I tried to make a 'system.tar.bz2' file from Slackware 14.1 from a fresh install and it was ~4.5GB in size. I may try again but pipe tar to the actual bzip command with "-9" flag, but that may be the default black size (900K) when compressing anyway. Nevermind, I scrolled further down in the manpage and "-9" is the default. And, I don't think that I can get out enough of Slackware 14.1 to get just a bare-bones install to fit on a CD-RW. At the moment, I may not have much of a choice but to use Porteus or TinyCore if I want people to avoid SSL issues. I've already explored these as options, but I had issues regarding remastering. I may just have to "grin and bare it" and figure them out; otherwise, I am running out of options short of starting a LFS (Linux From Scratch) project and I bet getting an i486 system working via that method is probably a nightmare since I doubt that its maintainers are thinking about i486 users. I just had a random thought. Would it be possible to install a compile the latest version of 'Links' on these older systems with SSL issues and just tell the SlackBuild files from 'sbopkg' to use it instead of 'curl'? I know that the latest version, or one of them, for DOS actually works just fine on most https sites that aren't JavaScript heavy, or at least according to FreeDOS on QEMU.