First question, is there any perticular reason why the slack 8.1 install cd wont boot on my home system?? It works on my laptop, and i can boot from any other cd (ie win2k , redhat). But for some reason I cant boot this slackware cd, and thats the only one i want to boot..lol

Second, on my laptop it wont actually turn off when i shut it down. I turned off the multi-processor support, cause thats what usually does it, but it didnt work. Any suggestions?

Thanx Yall

Sonik

If you can't boot from the CD itself, you could try making the appropriate boot disks and then simply install from the CD. I too am having the same problem... my DVD drive (cheap piece of crap... my housemates ex-drive) in that the only thing it boots from is the Mandy install DVD (LXF-27). It also doesn't have a floppy drive, but I'll be getting one tomorrow.

There has been a lot of discussions regarding booting the Slack 8.1 CD. Perhaps there will be some improvements on the next release. For now it is usually some kind of a compatibility issue. As mentioned you can make the boot disks. (5 or 6 disks I think) Or you could have a look at Smart Boot Manager. It will install to a floppy disk and allow booting the CD from the menu. I have seen some machines though that it will not even see the CDROM drive. Uncertain as to why though. It might be that the CDROM drive is IDE but not 100% ATAPI compliant. The site offers both DOS and Linux executables.

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net

The floppy disk route is a real pain, partially because the floppies have to be 100% perfect in order for this to work, and they often arn't. I guess one of use needs to figure out a better way: Use DOS + loadlin + kernel + initrd perhaps? or even figuring out a way to get it down to two floppies like Slack 8.0 used to be.

The shutdown problem has to do with the power management scheme (APM vs ACPI) used in your motherboards BIOS and which one (if any) is compiled into the kernel you are using. I noticed the "bare-i" kernel doesn't have ACPI compiled in at all, but APM is in as a module only (which you may not be loading). You probably used a different kernel in you laptop.

I've done the 5 floppy install twice now, annoying, but no big deal... the second time I did it with 3 floppies, dd'ing over the old images as I pulled them to put in the new ones.

Most likely on a laptop he did use the bare.i kernel, especially since Slack still uses pcmcia-cs. "modprobe apm" and see if that tackles the shutdown issue. To make it permanent, add the line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Cheers,

Finegan

I've burnt a Slackware 8.1 iso image on a CD under Mandy 8.2 no with no problems after got my questions answered here. Then it just booted.