Installing Slackware 9.0

mr.xTc · 07-21-2003, 03:53 AM

Hi,

I was just wondering how I would install linux with out booting from the CD ...

Because I seem to not be able to and need an alternative

Thnak You

slakmagik · 07-21-2003, 03:59 AM

Try downloading a bootable floppy from a Slack mirror - that'll jumpstart your CD-ROM. Good luck.

Linkage

The README.TXT in that directory will explain what's what. You probably just need bare.i.

mr.xTc · 07-21-2003, 04:07 AM

i already tried that but it didnt work ...

I got the error:

SYSLINUX 2.01 2003-01-31

then it paused and said

SYSLINUX 2.01 2003-01-31 Boot Failed

what went wrong??

slakmagik · 07-21-2003, 04:12 AM

Boot failed? That's pretty concise. :/ Well, my guess would be either something went wrong with the rawrite process - though then I'd figure you'd get a non-system disk error - or it's just not the right disk. Is there anything special about your system?

I'm not much good for this, because I've got very conventional boxes for the most part and the basic boot stuff usually works - more or less. I thought it was just that you didn't have a bootable CD-ROM.

Noryungi · 07-21-2003, 04:16 AM

Yep -- something was wrong either when creating the boot diskette, or when using it. It's possible the floppy was damaged... Try re-writing a correct boot floppy...

mr.xTc · 07-21-2003, 09:11 AM

thats for the advice ...

I re-did my boot flopy and the installation went fine