I appologize for my previous thread.

now the cdrom can be found, but after selecting the source media,
error again,error message is:

Your source device cannot be accessed properly.

Please be sure that it is mounted on /var/log/mount/Slackware, and that the Slackware disks are found in subdirectories of /var/log/mount/slackware like specified.

Could anyone help me?

THanks alllot.!!!

check your previous thread where i told you about
iso's

yes, i think that is my problem, so, how should i burn it as an image instead of a big file?

i'm going to guess you're using nero in windows?

it's something like "create cd from image file"
or "burn cdrom from image". I think both nero and
easy cd creator at that point will only pick their own
type of image, like .nrg or something. you have
to change it to *.iso or all files, something like that
and select the iso

actually i am using a public computer to burn the cd, i dont know what it is using.
what i did was just simply "drag and drop".

ok, maybe i try it again.

thanks.

As an aside, I used Easy CD Creator to burn my RH9 disks and I ruined 2 disks before I turned the speed down to it's lowest setting - this could be because my burner is a few years old........worth thinking about though.

by the way, what is the difference between an image and a normal file burnt onto CD?

thanks.

>> by the way, what is the difference between an image and a normal file burnt onto CD?<<

When you burn a CD-R you always burn an image. There are 2 steps to creating a CD. The first step is to select the files you want the CD to have on it and create a iso9660 file system with those files in it. That step creates the iso image. The second step is to burn that image to the CD. What burning an iso image does is 'copy' the image bit by bit to the CD.

The iso file that you downloaded is an image that has a file system with all the Slack install files.

If I understand correctly what you did was to burn an image of a file system that had only on file on it, the iso image of the Slack 9.0 install disc.

From a practical point of view, if you put the disk you burned in a CD reader you will see one file, the iso image. If you had burned the CD the way it was intended, you would see all the files and directories that come on the Slack install disk.

In fact with Linux, you can get the install files from your incorrectly burned disk by mounting the iso image file in loopback mode like so:

mount -t iso9660 -r -o loop /mnt/cdrom/cd.iso /mnt/tmp

If you now look in the /mnt/tmp directory you will see all the files as intended to be on the install disk. You can copy them to your hard disk or even use them to install Slack 9.0.

Bill

yes, i did burn only the iso file onto CD. =-) tooo newbie.....

well, but i do believe that asking stupid questions makes me less stupid.

so, if i "release" all the files from the iso file, and burn them individually, is it OK?

>> if i "release" all the files from the iso file, and burn them individually, is it OK?<<

Almost, but it is not that simple. Pat uses a linux program called mkisofs to make the Slackware install disc image. Here is the command that creates the iso image (from the readme.txt file in the isolinux directory of the CD):

mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \

-R -J -V "Slackware Install" \

-x ./bootdisks \

-x ./extra \

-x ./slackware/gnome \

-x ./pasture \

-x ./rootdisks \

-x ./source \

-x ./zipslack \

-hide-rr-moved \

-v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table \

-sort isolinux/iso.sort \

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \

-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \

-A "Slackware Install CD" .

If you just put the files on the CD, it will not boot. You have to include info on booting the CD which is what some of the above switches do. If you want to store permission and ownership info you need to use Rockridge extensions and if you want to be able to read it from Windows you need Joliet extensions (that is what the -R and -J switches do.)

You can get a complete list of the mkisofs switches and what they do by reading its man page:

man mkisofs

Even if you cannot boot from the CD you can still use it to install from. You need to make boot floppies and just use the CD as a source for the packages files.

That means you could even use your original CD with the one big iso file on it if you wanted to.

Bill