Ramdisks keep crashing using boot disks.
 

I'm trying to install Slackware 9.1 on my PII 233MHz, 32meg of ram compaq. I have the boot disk working fine then it tells me to insert the ramdisk. And i do so... It gives me all these errors about errors w/ the cylinders and heads of the disk before the kernal panics and crashes.


I don't think it's the disk i used b/c i've used 2 different ones and got the same error. I can't find a copy of color.gz on my install cd so it said to use install.1 and install.2 instead of that... that should still work for the ramdrive right?

if not could someone point me in the direction of where i could get a copy of color.gz.

thanks!

Color.gz is NOT the file to use. it's no good anyway(zero-bite)
You need install.1 and install.2 plus the appropriate boot-disk
Ckeck out www.amigolinux.org for an easier way to install a Slackware-compatible system.

Hmm.. yeah the only problem w/ that is that i don't really have a speedy way to download any files and the docs they have there aren't complete enough to fully help me.

So other than the install files and amigo there's no other way to install the new Slackware?

Sorry to double post, but i just thought of something....

Isn't it possible some how to load the install.1 and install.2 files from the cd after you use the bootdisk? After the boot disk is put in it asks for any boot parameters that i want... well, is it possible to enter a parameter that would get the file off the install cdrom and not have to worry about all these disks?

:confused:

No, sorry, unless you have a bootable slackware installation disk and a system that will boot from CDROM.
The boot disk needs a root file system to mount. This means either an already installed system on hard disk, a rescue linux system on floppy such as Slackware rescue.gz, etc. The install.1 and install.2 root floppies install a running slackware system which mostly is used to run 'setup'. setup is the group of scripts which guide you through an Installation of Slackware.
Besides the CDROM and floppy methods for installing slackware, you can also use install.zip install.zip has the same system and 'setup' scripts as the CDROM and install floppies. install.zip is unzipped onto a FAT partition and run from there. It can be booted with a bootdisk or from DOS/win using loadlin.
Where are your slackware package files? Did you download iso images or regular *.tgz packages?

Haha. you won't believe this! The whole problem i had was b/c i had the Slackware install cd 1 in the cd-rom drive when i was booting off the floppys ram disk. I feel like such a fool..

thanks for your help though. :D