can't install slack.....:'(
 

Okay i am trying to isntall slack and i am getting an error at the 'target' stage of the setup. After i set up the swap, i try to set my hdb6 as my root and format it using reiserfs but then i get these weird msgs which i think are error msgs..not really sure...it's quite long with bunch of weird codes but the first line says general protection fault or something similar.....any help??

I will post by partitions if they are needed...

;) thanks

How is the disk partitioned?

okay i will type out how it's partitioned....
DEVICE BOOT START END BLOCK ID
dev/hdb1 * 1 1275 10G c WIN95 FAT32LBA
dev/hdb2 1276 7297 48G f WIN95 EXT'SLBA
dev/hdb3 1276 1307 250MB 83 LINUX
dev/hdb4 1308 1371 500MB 82 LINUX SWAP
dev/hdb5 1372 1435 500MB 83 LINUX
dev/hdb6 1436 1627 15GB 83 LINUX
dev/hdb7 1628 1815 15GB 83 LINUX
dev/hdb8 1816 7297 44G c WIN95 FAT32LBA

OKay i had to type these out...so there might be mistakes...but this is how it's set up now

okay the section headings are out of place but i am sure it's not that hard to figure out ;)

and okay it's not hd6 i am trying to set up as root now..it's 3...i kinda fixed the order... ;)

Trying to set it up on the 250MB partition?

Why not just use 1 swap/1 root?

Never mind that...I see what you are thinking.

what do u mean?? i am planning to use the GB partitions for /usr and /var but i don't understand why it can't format these partitions and give me general protection fault : 0000

Not sure what's going on with that...possible that it doesn't like where the partition is...hdb3 is at 1276 1307...

all right that might be it..i am going to try to install it on another partition 1308 and see what happens

all right....it worked after giving me can't find fat system and can't find yada yada ya msgs.....so i guess it's my partition problem after all....um any ideas how i can repartition this without losing my 44 gb of data?? ;) thanks

Yeah I see that hdb8 sitting there...how about using a smaller drive for root (like 1-4gb), then using the other partitions on hdb for /usr, /var, etc.

but what about partitions starting at 1276..that becomes unusable wouldn't it?? i am not really sure what i am talking about ;) tee hee hee

I still can't figure out how you got what you have...what is the size of this drive...total?