I am having trouble installing linux. I have downloaded rawrite and color.gz to a disk for slackware and don't know what to do after this (if this is even right).I then entered the command C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>RAWRITE color.gz a: under MS-DOS Windows00 and got bad command or file name. I then entered A:\>RWARITE COLOR.GZ. Any help would be great.
If you have better details of redhat installation that would be great too.Thank you

You will need an additional file for a Slackware install. Go to the slackware ftp site and download the file bare.i. It's under:

pub/linux/slackware/slackware-current/bootdisks.144

bare.i is the most basic of boot disks and will work with most ide controllers and drives.

Save all the files to a directory like c:\linux_new. Put a black floppy in A:, cd to c:\linux_new and run:

RAWRITE bare.i A:

replace the disk in A: with another and run:

RAWRITE color.gz A:

Now you will have a boot disk and a root disk for booting linux. Put the boot disk (bare.i) in the box that you will be using for linux and boot it up. It will quickly boot to a lilo prompt, just press enter. Linux will do its thing and it will ask you to change disks. Put the second disk in (color.gz) and press enter. Slackware Linux will then load and dump you out at a linux login prompt. Log in as root, no password required. Create your linux file systems and install.

You should download the install instructions if you are new to linux. Slackware is not the best installs for Linux newbies since you really have to setup your partitions using fdisk and format (mkfs) by hand. The slackware setup program does not do that for you.

Good luck.

Gary