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Without knowing how you got to this point, it would appear that you haven't chosen the destination mount point as yet, or you chose something that was invalid and it couldn't be mounted.
For dedicated Slackware Linux install from the Slack CD. This is not for multiple OS installations. Repartitioning your hard will destroy all current data on the drive. Slackware requires your drive to be partitioned as needed BEFORE you run the setup program. This is done using the fdisk or cfdisk programs. Most people would use something like "cfdisk /dev/hda" for the first IDE hard disk. If it is a new large hard disk (blank) and you receive an error message, try using "cfdisk -z /dev/hda." to start with a blank (zero) partition table. Usually, you create two partitions at a minimum. A small one, say around 128 MByte, for a swap partition and a second for the root partition. The second partition must marked "bootable" and is type "Linux." The first is marked as type "Linux swap." Of course there are wide variations, this is just a simple example. A complete install of Slack 8.1 would require appx. 2 GByte of disk space, so I would allow around 3 - 4 GByte for the root partition. After this is complete, run setup and start by configuring your swap space and then just follow the prompts.
If you have completed the above, or some configuration that you feel should work, then switch to another console (ALT-F2) and type "dmesg" and see if there are any errors reported at the end of the output that might indicate where the problem is. Like an IDE hard disk seek error or something. Could mean a bad hard disk that is being shut down or something.
Hope it helps, good luck.
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installing problems: "cannot create mnt/etc/fstab"
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