Slackware Installation
 

i got a toshiba 440cdt and i am trying to install slackware 10 on it .At the set up I select the media as /dev/hdc which is my CDROM ,I select the softwares I need to install and select the target media that is my Linux partition.
,still the setup gives the message that I need to do all this 3 things before starting with setup.

In between the CD ROM has sometimes problems getting detected .Still
with all this my MBR got loaded with GRUB so I dont know what to do next can some one guide me with my problem so that I can continue with the slackware 10 installation.

My laptop details are
Toshiba 440CDT
64MB RAM
2Gb Harddisk
Floppy drive
CDROM present
1USB

Did you follow the setup step by step? What do you mean, it want's you to do it all again? How?

Slackware
 

Yes I did follow the instructions mentioned but , the setup dialog box tells me to select the media source,target location selection and selecting the softwares to install.

May be if the CDROM is working fine,is there a possibility that I do not correctly set up the target partition.Can you inform what do I have to do with the partitions that i have created.

Thank you for your reply.

Regards
Jenish

just hit ctrl+alt+del and let it reboot then you will see lilo if you have installed it and just choose linux+enter and off you go :)

Start by double checking your partitions. You should have a bootable Linux partition and a small Linux swap partition. Then go into setup and select Addswap. After finishing that part I think it pretty much throws you at the partition to install linux on (ex /dev/hda1). You format it and then start to install. As for selecting the source, I always just let it autodetect where the cdrom is.

That is as good as I can recall without actually stepping through an install. If nothing else bang away at it and you'll get it eventually.

Display setting
 

thank you guys but installation complete ,but something wrong with the display setting the root login goes out of the display screen.So i just type the login password and startx so i get graphics interface which is OK.But canany one help on display setting during startup