Hello,
first.. sorry for being a little dumb :P

Ok, here it is..
basicly..
when i run fdisk it just says "the number of cylindes for this disk is set to 9441" it sez its fine but somthing might not work..
but i cant carry on anyway, so im confused a little.

could sum1 please point me in the right direction?

Thanks

It is only a warning because your drive has more then 1024 cylinders. Don't worry about it. So why can't you carry on?

Well i kinda did b4.. and made a partition thing installed it.. went to boot up and nothing happened at all..
i was assuming it was cos of that

Do not ever be sorry for not knowing something.

Instead of running fdisk why don't you try running cfdisk? It is alot easier. Give it a go and let us know how you managed.

I tried that.. and it said.. damn i forgot now.
Some error about the partition end partial or somthing (sorry, trying to remember visually)

Hmm. Sorry but I don't know what you mean. Maybe start all over again and write down the errors you get. It's always a good idea to write down anything unusual.

Not trying to put you off Slack but have you tried Mandrake 10? It is so easy to install it's not funny. I had problems installing Slack but I'm really glad I stuck with it. Still, it was frustrating at times and took me a few attempts.

Ok, ill go and get the error message and post it.. if not ill have a crack at mandrake..
thanks

Sure thing. I'll be here for another 3 hours so I'll be glad to help.

thanks

Ok heres what it sez:
"FATAL ERROR: Bad primery partition0: partition ends in the final partial cylind"
:|

ok. Delete all the partitions with cfdisk and start over. Create the new partition with the [New] option and choose [Primary]. Make it 1GB (you can get away with half that but let's play it safe.

Then create the following partitions:

* 1GB Logical and select the [Type] option and enter 82. This will be your swap.

* 10GB Logical partition (to be used as /usr (mounted later))

* 10GB Logical partition (to be used as /home (mounted later))

* 1GB Logical partition (to be used as /var (mounted later))

* 1GB Logical partition (to be used as /tmp (mounted later))

* 5GB Logical partition and select the [Type] option again and enter 0B (that's Zero B) This will be your Fat32 partition to use as a placeholder for files that both an XP system and a Linux system can read.

Finally select the [Write] option and write the partition tables. After that select [Quit] and type setup in the command prompt.

From there you have to mount the partitions. I think it's option 4 but I can't recall exactly. You will see it when you ge there.

Right, thanks alot!
Ill go give that a shot.. Ill post how i get on either way


Thanks again

Ok i did as you said and went for install... got about half way and then
"There was a fatal error attempting to install /var/log/mount/slackware/xap1xv-3.10a-i486-3.tgz"
and then nothing but that on everything trying to be installed

Hey eoj, on the computer you are installing on, are you using an older cd-rom? I had pretty much the same issue (except it gave me the fatal error message right away) and it turned out to be an issue with the cd-rom. May I suggest switching out the cd-rom with another and giving it another try.
melee

Hmm, i dont think its that - the entire computer isnt even a year old yet

Ok, just sharing my experiences
melee