I just downloaded the 9.1 ISO's for and i put them on cd's but when i put the first one in nothing happens...lol it doesnt load at startup or anything....also i can't find anything in the text for it on the cd's...anyone got any idea what i can do to install it?

I am assuming that you are trying to boot the CD, and it is not booting the CD. Have you checked in your BIOS to make sure that the CDROM is in your boot options? You'll want to have the CDROM as the first boot option, then it should boot right up once you save the BIOS settings and reboot.

If it still does not work, that would indicate a problem with your discs... did you burn them as a disc image.

If you have it set in your BIOS to boot from CDROM, what kind of hardware are we talking about here. Some older BIOS's and motherboards, etc are not capable of booting newer versions of Slack from changes made in the way it detects the cd to boot from and so on.

My hardware is all new stuff within the last year. My BIOS is set to boot from cd first. I don't have a floppy drive installed so I can't make a Boot disk for it, The CD was burned from the ISO on the Slackware site...any idea's how I can get it installed? I am running on windows now and its very depressing!

make sure your bios is set to load cd's. if your using an Asus mainboard, like me- you'll have to make sure that it load's the cd before the hard drive.

I am using an Albatron MB with a Pheonix BIOS and it is set to load from CD's first and HD second....but it wont do anything when the first cd in in the drive....any other idea's?

Can you see all of the files and directories on the cd ? Did you just copy the image file to the cd or did you create the CD from the image with a burning program. I had a friend who is a real newbie, to windows xp, never mind. He was good enough to download the images with his broadband connection, then he used xp to copy them onto a cd. I had to copy the 1 file from each cd to my harddrive then burn the cds from the images with nero. There is a difference from just copying the file to a cd and creating a cd from the image.

lol ya, i made the cd with the files... i may need to try again tho...I can see all the files and folders on the cd tho....

anyone got any other idea's that may help?

after you downloaded the iso, did you:
verify the md5sums
burn the iso as an image
burn at a slow speed (4x)

also,
you might want to try burning to a cd-rw instead of a cd-r or try a different brand of cd-r media

your cdrom ide or scsi? are you trying to boot from the cd drive that you wrote the cd with? and how did you burn the cds?

1. your cdrom ide or scsi? if its ide you should be fine from stuff youve mentioned. if its scsi make sure you make the scsi bios aware to boot from cd ... this also goes for add-in ide controllers.

2. are you trying to boot from the drive you wrote the cd with? If you are this eliminates problems with your cd not being readable ... some cdroms cant read writeable or rewritable cds.

3. how did you burn the cds? the slack 9.1 image is bootable so if you used a program like nero(winblows program), fireburner(X program), or cdrecord it will make the cd bootable automatically, but you can have problems if you tell the burner program to make it bootable with an option in the program

The slack 9.1 cd is not available from the slackware site. you cant download it from www.slackware.com or their mirrors for that matter. so if you went to one of their mirrors you got the updates or just a copy of all the files ... that wont boot. On the slack site there is a program you can download that will let you download the slack9.1 image. check what you downloaded.

hmm thx for the info, ill checkk all the stuff out.

I'm kinda in the same boat with my laptop. My floppy(external) crapped out and I can't boot from my CD-ROM. Here's the best (possible) solutions I've found (I haven't tried these yet so don't get mad if it messes up. In theory though...)
If you still have the .iso on your hardrive, you could boot with Slack's install.zip (available within the 9.0 ftp I think). This utility boots on another partition with LILO or Loadlin, and then starts the installation. It's the same root system as on the boot disks, just booted in a slightly different way. From there you could run the .iso in a loopback device. On my desktop(though I used a floppy to boot that)the loop was faster than installing off a CD.
Alternatively, you could use another utility (smartboot? - it's spoken about in the README in the bootdisks section of 9.0) This allows you to boot from a chosen media(good if your BIOS won't allow you to boot from CD)

hmm if you are able to do that lemme know, i am still not real linux savvy so i don't know how to do the loopback stuff...but i still got the ISO's on my machine so lemme know...=P