I have been given the task to install slackware 13.1 over windows. I have downloaded and copied slackware 13.1 on to a disk, and rebooted the computer, but i am not getting what all the tutorials have shown. I have been looking for tutorials that specifically instruct me as to how to install slackware 13.1 on to a windows xp. I am not trying to dual run I just simply want to run slackware and slackware only. Can anyone help? Im sure lost.

Copied Slackware on a disK? Wat do you mean, did you download an ISO image and burnt that to a CD or DVD? is that DVD bootable?

Or did you download Slackware to your hard drive? If so, did you download an ISO image or a complete Slackware directory tree? Did you download it to your Windows XP partition?

Questions that need an answer before we can help you further.

Eric

I downloaded it off of my computer, copied it to DVD, and I am trying to install it on to a different computer. I just cant get it to boot. I am not sure whether the DVD is bootable. I have never tried to boot something from a CD or DVD.

Edit - just saw the OP's second post, so my advice below is a little premature

Sounds like you just need to boot the computer up from the slackware CD or DVD and then once you arrive at the command prompt in the installer, you need to create some partitions - type
where /dev/sda is the disk you want to install slackware on - it may not be sda, so worth doubling checking if you're not sure before doing anything else. You'll need at least 2 partitions, one standard linux (type 83) partition and one swap partition (type 82). Once that's down you can go into setup, read the instructions as you go and, in most cases, accept the defaults.

It is a good idea to spend some time reading before you start - check out onebuck's sticky post in this forum, it's full of useful advice.

How did you copy it to DVD? You need to actually burn the disk image to the DVD, not just copy the ISO to the DVD.

Adam

I figured out my problem. Thanks all.