9.0 wont install...

ok i dled the install cd iso image...and i burnt it...and its not booting..so i put it in windows to verify that i burnt right and it did (it had multiple files, not just the .iso file) someone help...thanks

ok i read the faq at the site and im still baffled! ahh! help please..thanks

First thing to find out would be
whether the machine supports
CD-boot at all ... ever booted of
other CD's?

If so, check your BIOS settings
to see what the boot order of the
devices is ...

If not: get the right root/boot floppy
images for your hardware and
rawrite them :)

Cheers,
Tink

yea ive bootted thousands of oses on this thing b4....so im assuming that im going to get the right root/boot floppy images and raw write em...how do i do that.....

Go to your closests ftp mirror with slackware
Read
pub/slackware/slackware-current/bootdisks/README.TXT
pub/slackware/slackware-current/rootdisks/README.TXT

If anything remains completely in the dark,
come back and ask more specifically ;)

Cheers,
Tink

ok thanks...quick question i need 2 disks?

You burnt it wrong.

Read the help file for how to burn an image (that's what an ISO is) rather than files. If you extract then burn, it is not bootable, it is just a data disk.

How To Check MD5sums On A Linux Iso Image
# Cheap CDs
Discount Linux CDs
Linux Central
Cheapbytes
TuxCDs
ComputerHelperGuy

no no i burnt it right, ive burnt alot of isos, also the md5 checks out

ok i found rawrite on the cd, and ive decided to use the bare.i image..but the only place i find that image is in the kernels folder and bare.i isnt an image its a folder that contains 3 files, config, bzImage, and a system.map.gz....ive never been more confused

I think you need boot.img

i cant find boot.img anywhere

Originally posted by roofy ok thanks...quick question i need 2 disks?

Nope, sorry, it's three
read the README.txt's the other way round ;)
rootdisk first ...

Cheers,
Tink

nm guys i reburnt it and it works now...i guess the cd was scratched or somthing

Oh lol :)

Good on yah mate ;)

Cheers,
Tink

thanks got it working