i tried to install slackware 10.2 on my other test computer but during install it gives a message kernel-panic not syncing and give a lot of error code like 00 00 00 ... and the installation stops giving me back the prompt. i had properly tested the harddisk for badblock using the redhat cd and its clean. but slackware wouldn't install. i am fed up trying. what could be the problem?

The ram. Or maybe a bad cd copy.

the RAM is good and the CD is also good i guess. i burnt a new cd after the first failure. now a newly burnt cd can't be bad or can they? i don't know maybe.

what is with checksum?

Yes. Do md5sum on the .iso and compare it to the Slack site one's.
For the ram, try another, because those kind of errors came from it 90% of the time.
Or if you have two rams, remove one, try another etc...

actually i don't recall the checksum. but can a overclocked pc lead to this kind of situation? i have been brooding over what went wrong with the installation for a quite a while and i just now remembered sometime before i had overclocked my system. i think maybe this is the cause i don't know for sure but i will normalize the clock and try again. wish me luck.

yes, it might have something to do with your overclocking... but either way you should definitely checksum all the files on the disc to make sure they are all perfect... the checksum is not something you could recall, you need to use the md5sum utility on the checksum file on the cd...

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../CHECKSUMS.md5

okie allright. but i now guess the checksum must be allright since the installation was successful. the overclocking must have backfired in my case. previously during redhat days i had tinkered with the overclocking thing just out of curiosity. it didn't showed any difference and i forgot to reset to normal. i forgot the whole damn episode after a time. now its solved and i am okay. its amazing slackware installed so damn quickly even on full installation. it took all of my hardwares with out any questions. the xorgsetup worked best for my x and the sound also picked up quite nicely. this is really good uptill now. what about the wheel mouse but? i have a dell usb wheel mouse. i ran the mouseconfig and setup my mouse as usb connected. it works nicely but no wheel support. i can't scroll though the emulate three button works nicely. is this a problem with slackware? no wheel support? i hope not! maybe i just need to tinker around the different types of mouse listed my mouseconfig (but i am not so hopeful coz all others are either listed as serial or ps/2).

for the mouse wheel you probably just need to add a line like this to the "InputDevice" section of your xorg.conf, right below the mouse protocol line (and then restart X):

still doesn't works! here's my xorg.conf file:

I used xorgsetup to first generate this fresh config file and then added the Zaxis mapping line. anything more i could do here?

Change Option "Protocol" "auto" into
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
and restart X.

oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh (thats a happy sound!) i changed the "auto" field to "IMPS/2". a reboot and voila! it worked!