My set up is as follows:

/dev/hda has 3 partitions, one winxp, one ext3 linux root and third swap linux.

/dev/hdb is a backup hard drive and has only one ext3 formatted partition.

Currently,this system is running Slackware 10. I want to start from scratch and install Slackware 12.0. Also I am going to get rid of winxp entirely and use this machine solely for Linux.

When I boot with huge.s or hugesmp.s kernels on the first CDROM, the installation arrives at the following message and gets stuck there. It will sit there indefinitely without making any progress.

"Reading all physical volumes, this may take a while"

I don't understand this. I did some googling and found some results that talk about lvm system or something.

Does anyone know what is going on?

Thanks.

Hi,

Boot your system with single user mode and 'fsck' the filesystem(s). Since you don't care about the winXP then create the partition as a Linux partition then make a filesystem on it.