I'm installing slackwear 10, kernel 2.4, so I made the discs, boot into disc, now I see a boot:_ with some notes that tell me that this is where I should make prior arrangements before going on to setup, I need to load Promise Raid drivers, I have them on a floppy, but I have no idea how to let slackwear know that. I've posted only a couple times before, and i am major noobie, so please talk to me like i'm 5.



P.S. my system is a ASUS K8V SE board with a A64, so the integrated LAN is kinda new, I've found out that kernel 2.6 supports it, but i'm pretty sure that 2.4 doesnt, leaving me with a problem after setup. Is there an easy way to upgrade the kernel before I install or should I wait until I load slackwear to upgrade the kernel?



P.S.S. I'm dual booting with windows xp.



Thanks for all your help,
Sergei.

Would it help if instead of loading the raid drivers I would create a linux partition using partition magic?

BTW I have 2 * 120 gig drives, I created a 60 gig partion for windows and 60 gig partition for a secondary partition for windows, so I have 120 gigs left of unpartitioned space that i wanna use for linux.

Please help, because I wanna gotta get this running by friday.

If you mean creat a partition on the RAID it still won't help.
DO this:
Boot with CD and insert floppy. type:
cd /
mkdir /floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
cd /floppy
insmod ./module-name
then proceed to setup.

list the sata promise drivers as a module in the current kernel build. your Raid chip is the 378 by promise.
If they are in the build then setting up the partitions as ext3 in partion magic will work and the partitions will be seen at the slack install.

"list the sata promise drivers as a module in the current kernel build"

how do i do that?

I meant that your drivers should already be supported in slack 10.0