[very newbie] installation and BD

MD3 · 04-23-2004, 10:01 AM

hi all! following the instructions reported in slackware's syte i created my own boot disk using BARE.I and my root disk using COLOR.GZ
the computer in wich sw 9.1 must be installed doesn't support CD-boot, so I first formetted the HD, then inserted the BOOT DISK into the drive. At the reboot, the floppy isn't recognized as a bootable disk... why?

thanks to all

excuse me for my "not so good" english

njbrain · 04-23-2004, 10:07 AM

How did you write the floppys?
Noah

MD3 · 04-23-2004, 10:09 AM

i wrote them with RAWWRITE

p.s. is it normal that the size of color.gz is 0 KB??

thanks for answering

njbrain · 04-23-2004, 10:11 AM

No, it should be around 1400 KB.
Noah

MD3 · 04-23-2004, 10:13 AM

d:\rootdisks\color.gz

the file size is 0KB!!!

in d:\ there's SLACKWARE CD1 that i downloaded... but this is another issue.... first i'd like to solve the first

njbrain · 04-23-2004, 12:49 PM

Try downloading it off the internet from,
ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/os/s...9.1/rootdisks/
Noah

MD3 · 04-24-2004, 04:46 AM

i downloaded it.. but the rootdisk won't be very helpfull without a working bootdisk

i tried to rewrite the boot disk... but the result doesn't change.

the configuration of the computer is the following:
pentium 133 MHz
only keyboard
16 MB Ram
HD (4 GB) empty
FD set as primary device

thanks to all

Quiber · 05-12-2004, 10:10 PM

Try using the "bare.i" image...it worked for me when I couldnt find anything else...try it

Quiber

MD3 · 05-13-2004, 03:25 AM

:\ none of the .I files seems to work... i think i should download it again :'(

gnashley · 05-13-2004, 10:50 AM

color.gz hasn't worked since Slackware 4.0 or so. You need to make 3 floppies, one with a boot image and then install.1 and install.2 which contaion the Slackware setup scripts.
Put rawrite and the image files in the top level C: or D:
Run rawrite and answer the prompts. You may need to change the names of the floppy image files as Windows somtimes appends a . gz

MD3 · 05-14-2004, 02:16 PM

ermh.. the matter is with the boot disk.. that isn't recognized :\
color.gz isn't so important without a bootdisk!!

gnashley · 05-14-2004, 02:57 PM

Well, the boot disk images do work when properly written to floppy with rawrite or with linux dd
color.gz does NOT work unles you get color.gz from Slackware 3.5 or so. Slackware 8.1 uses 5 floppies for the installation scripts, Slackware 9.1 uses 2.
What commands are using to write the floppy disk? and what error messages do you get.

MD3 · 05-16-2004, 11:36 AM

to create ther bootdisk.

RAWRITE bare.i a:

the error is:

> Not bootable floppy