yes the cd is in the cd rom and no i am not rebooting after formating

After partitioning you need to reboot, otherwise the changes do not take effect.

I have had Slack installs fail because the CPU was above 40 degrees C, maybe turn the fan up?
Did you do an MD5 of the CD first before burning it?
If you want max space for downloads/music etc, make a /home partition. Its better to make this seperate from the / as it means you can format the system without killing all your docs.
I would use cfdisk as it is a lot easier than fdisk.
Yes you should reboot after partitioning, but that doesn't sound like the problem here.

sounds to me like an issue with being able to mount the cd to the proper location so that the install can see the packages.

so after i partition then reboot what do i do and what is MD5? after burning a cd? i feel as if i get past this problem even being a newb with Linux <only because i have never had a proper install> i think i can figure out most of the rest or read docs. to figure it out.. after all i am not all that computer illerate i started on a c64 at age of 6 also do you think changing cdroms micht help???????

http://www.slackware.com/install/
This helped me through my first install.

i have see one other person with this Mount Error message but i dont think he got the answer to his question either so baisicly what i want to know is what exactly this means and how to fix it or is there a work around for it i also have mailed support@slackware.com and no reply so it musnt happen offten please help me

is it possible that the bare.i boot img does not contain the right infor for my cd rom??? its a newer Creative 52x in ide2 master

do you have more than 1 cdrom? If so, is there a cd of any type in that 2nd cd drive?

could always try a different kernel image... couldn't hurt. if you have a decent broadband / network connection you could always try sharing ANOTHER cd drive with the slack disk in it and then installing from the network. Or you could try a distribution such as Gentoo which downloads its packages from the web.

Its a checksum of the disc to make sure the download wasn't corrupted. in the download dir on the server there will have been a md5 file with the same name as the ISO. Download that and use MD5sum for windows to check it out. Make sure the numbers match exactly. If they don't you will need to redownload.
Here's the file and install instructions:
http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
Switching CDROMs might help. Sometimes installers can be quirky, but you will be able to put that one back in once its installed if that is the problem.
I wouldn't recommend Gentoo for a new user the initial setup isn't very nice, and it doesn't "download its packages from the web." It downloads the source code (much bigger file) and compiles it (takes much longer, esp for things like X11 and Qt) That is only any use if you know what compiler flags you want to set and want to do some hard tuning of the system, otherwise you're wasting your time.
Maybe debian if you want to go down that route, but again, the initial setup isn't very nice. Slackware works fine though. This problem must be fixable.

sorry, never used Gentoo... it does download the "source" from the web though right? course it's probably possible to get it all on a CD... much like LFS.

i have tried EVERY boot img i can find and nothing works also have tried 4 different cdroms and those did the same so if anyone has any new info just e-mail me @ poonjabgerm@hotmail.com or drop me a line @ speedy_horn_zalis Yahoo Messenger