Ok, here's my problem, when I installed linux I had windows installed, however after booting to windows it gave a whole shit load of errors and some weird network connection i couldn't get rid of, anyways I'm lazy and just "repaired" windows, however that got rid of lilo. No for the bad news, I had a boot floppy, but my dad was working on someone's computer and needed a floppy to make a 98 boot disk and well I wake up and there he is in front of my computer, no more floppy. Er, that was more of a rant, but can I use the cd to boot to linux and how do I a.) create a new floppy boot disk or b.) re-install lilo?

Regards,
jklaroe

I think you can boot from the 2nd Slackware CD and boot with your root partition by indicate it at the prompt. Once booted you can make a boot floppy with the tool :
/sbin/makebootdisk

Boot up with the Slackware install cd, the first one. At the boot: option as if you were going to install it again, type something along the lines like this:

boot: linux root=/dev/hdXX

Where XX is the drive letter and number of where you installed the / partition for Slackware. This will boot your system up normally and then you can reconfigure lilo, run it, etc.

Ok thanks I'll try that, I haven't used slack in a while and can't remember the hda? part I know it's not 1 cause that's windows...

regards and thanks,
jklaroe

trying doesn't hurt, yes windows will be hdX1

/ is in most cases hdX2

so just starting with hdX2 and go on like that hdX3 .....
till something usefull happens


good luck

run lilo as root after you load linux, will reinstall lilo to the mbr

Yea I got it fixed it was all me and not you ??!!! Er yes it was hda2 I got everything fixed and have about 4 floppies with lilo on them placed strategicly around my room.... Thanks for the help no I'm off to get mysql, php. apache and telnet installed.....er and working.....correctly


Regards,
jklaroe