Hey guys, I'm putting slackware on my Dell Latitude D500, so far I have gotten to the point of making the boot floppy, and downloading the two ISOs which are now on the desktop. Where do I go from here? Please help!

....and you don't have a cd-drive on that pc. ?
can you explain a little more.......

-you have iso.'s on your desktop. Is that the pc where Slack is going to be...?
-what is on that pc right now ? ( windos ? )
-if it has to go on another pc, do you have a network connection ?

egag

I'm on my other computer now. The laptop has the ISOs on the desktop folder, and the boot floppy is ready. And no, the laptop doesn't have a cd drive.

you would have to partiton the laptop by booting with a rootdisk, and then mount the images and install from there, I don't know how much space is on the laptop drive, also you could try doing a network install, by having the isos on the other computer

I have plenty of space, 20 gigs...and I don't have network connection working between the two...I don't understand exactly what you are saying though.

Ok, don't worry about the network install thing. Since you have plenty of space, I will also assume that you have partitioned your drive, and made a swap and linux partition, either with cfdisk which of course is destructive, or with a win32 app like partition magic.

All you need to do then is to make a boot disk to boot into a linux prompt, this is the part im not sure about , also because of the filesystem that the iso is on, and also what boot disk images supports loopback, and I wish I knew which rootdisk does what, but I don't since I never had to use them

Umm, no cd drive. no ethernet? What do you got? cause you gonna need somethin dude

how is that drive partitioned at the moment ?
and on wich partition are the iso-files ?

egag

ah okay so he magically got the iso images on it with no cd drive and no network connection? impressive feat.

Nope, Jeebizz...partition magic won't work for some reason, it just comes up with an error and then shuts down...

I have ethernet and floppy.

The drive is partitioned according to whatever the standard Dell is, I believe there's only one main partition, and the dell partition. The ISOs are on the windows partition

Is the partition FAT32 or NTFS? NTFS is not supported natively on rootdisks from what i've heard, and it is strange that partition magic would give you errors, because I haven't had any problems with it. Perhaps you should try having partiton magic scan for any errors and have it fix them.

Probably NTFS, it's windows....I also just created 2 more floppies, the root disks....the thing is I can't even get into partition magic, as soon as a run it, it has the error and closes.

Ok, try uninstalling and do a reinstall of it, and see if that fixes the issue with PM, and also since it is ntfs try having partition magic setup a 3gb FAT16 or FAT32 drive to put the ISOS in, so that linux can read that partition, linux can read NTFS too, but not from any of the rootdisks, only when linux is fully installed can it read to NTFS

If you have an ethernet why don't you just use a cat cable and connect it to you main pc? Instead of going through all this? Lot faster and simpiler.

you'll need a crossover cable to connect to the other pc. ( nic to nic. )

egag