Ok, I will try to be as detailed as I can.
I have downloaded the file on my winxp machine. Because of the long time it takes to unzip it straight to my Freesco machine (ex win95) I unzip it on the winxp machine and after that I copy the whole bunch to the freesco machine.
When I look in windows xp via SAMBA at the file at /hda1 I see a LINUX.BAT and other stuff correctly. I can open the.bat file and with notepad I am able to change thet bat file to read ....../hda1
When I switch to the WIN95 machine in DOS. I get the
LINUX_{_2 notation instead of LINUX.BAT
But whatever.... I just start it up with loadlin vmlinuz root = /dev/hda1 rw and to my surprise it begins to start up...
until the next line :
"Activating pseudo root /linux
VFS: mounted root (umsdos filesystem)"
I get no linux prompt whatsoever.... somewhere down the line there is something going wrong. Do I for instance have to use
HIMEM or something like that....
And of course after all my playing around the machine turned into "read only" so I first had to SCANDISK it again...
Maybe you can do something with this info ???
R.
Wally
In addition I've tried to prepare a bootdisk and a rescue disc as mentioned on
http://slackware.mirrors.pair.com/sl...-3.9/zipslack/
in the FAQ.TXT under Q5 .
Both discs should be downloadable at
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackw...sks.144/bare.i an d
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackw...dsks/rescue.gz
But that doesn't exists anymore
so I tried the "bootdisk.img" also at
http://slackware.mirrors.pair.com/sl...-3.9/zipslack/
But I don't know how to put an .img on a floppy.
(Is it just downloading direct on a floppy? nothing happenend when I tried
to boot from the flop....
You see there are a lot of questions on my side
Wally