You're right, me setting up a FTP server is easier. I will do so on my slackbox and give you a temporary user account to ftp in. I will email you the details as soon as I'm done.



-zsejk

hehe thanks,

you rule

If one win2000 cd doesn't work chances are another won't either. I think its probably using a boot method that your machine will not deal with.

I thought you said before that you had xp before and that disk booted. As far as making the disks goes you don't have to install anything. You just have to get a command prompt. You could even do it with a dos or windows 98 boot disk.

Chances are if you look around the net you'll find them. You don't necessarily need the exe. There is a linux method to make boot disks from image files like they have zipped up here http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm which is probably already the one you have. I think that the instructions for using MS boot images are actually in Slackware if not its in the Slackware current under boot disks becaThey made the Slackware floppy boot disks to be compatible with windows users who want to make them to install Slackware.

it does boot the slackware CD so that should not be the problem

the "broke" machine doesn't have any windows on it now just slack, and yes it had XP before that but it had boot disk's but one of them doesn't work anymore, i think it was boot floppy 3, always gives error saying something like that it's not the right floppy. but i am sure it is because they are numbered and it worked fine before. but then again you can never trust floppy's.

so xp is not an option. well same problem as with win2000 now both can't boot without floppy's. but i prefere win2000.

This is worth a try though I don't know if it will work for sure. If what he sent you besides the exe's were image file try to do this with Slackware. If not download the zip files I linked to.

dd if=[image file name] of=/dev/fd0

If not I'm sure we can think of something else. There has to be a way to make a boot disk from Slackware that will get you a dos command prompt. That's all you need to make those disks. Like I said, even a windows 98 boot disk with CD support should solve your problem.

yes i know, it's not that hard of a problem IF i would have a bootable cd or floppy, but all my friends are on holiday and i am suck home with no bootable cd's
and my nabours are too old, if i ask them if they have windows for a clean install they will hasitate for a bit and then give me something to clean and point to the window of their house.

All you need is a DOS boot floppy. First, copy the .exe in floppy or CD rom (in this case you need a DOS floppy with a cdrom driver in it like a Win98 boot floppy)

You insert DOS boot floppy on a computer with a floppy drive, then boot with the floppy (make sure BIOS boot sequence boots from floppy at first).

So now you have a DOS prompt like :
A:\>

Eject the floppy, insert the floppy with the exe in it or the cd rom :

if from floppy, just type :
A:\> DIR
and then the name of the exe :
A:\> WHATEVER.EXE
follow the instructions

if from cd rom, same procedure but you have to change prompt letter first (say CD rom is D:\)
A:\> D:
D:\>
(same procedure as above for floppy)

thanks for the reply Cedrid, if you read everything you will see that it is the only problem for me, to get/make the boot floppy's the rest is easy i know.

anyway thanks to zsejk we have found our own freeware style way of doing this

Have you tried with the w98 floppy?

no, as i said i only had xp boot floppy's from before and one of them was broke.
and i couldn't create any other floppy's because i didn't have windowz on the machine which has a floppy drive. and without windowz you can't execute those .exe files which make the boot floppy's

So you haven't any XP/Dos boot floppy that will boot a PC and bring you to a DOS prompt ?

You have to find on the net a win 98 boot floppy image in a workable format for slackware (no exe, maybe .bin format) Then use dd command to make win floppy.

thanks for help cedrik, zsejk already send me what i needed and windowz install already started

so basically/finally the PROBLEM is SOLVED


thanks to zsejk

*And* it's marlor's birthday today, so I guess today is an EXTRA happy day.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARLOR!!!



-zsejk