Hey, I've been searching around looking for the answer to this question for a few days. I've installed Slackware 8.1 on my pentium 4 with no problem and decided hey my AMD 900 has XP which is a giant pig so why not install slack on that also. Here's what happens. I DL'd the root and boot disks and my friend had burned me the slackware CD (unbootable unfortunatly) as I am on a 56k. Any way I boot from the boot disk and everything goes nicely untill asked to insert the first root disk. once I do that the screen gets multiple vertical bars and nothing else. Bars are a multitude of colors but usually stay in the brownish red and grey area. OK now this "was" a compaq that I kinda hacked the death out of. I think the problem is the intergrated :gringes: vid card. which is reported as an S3 prosavage I think it also says something like K133.. I also tried to install an old version of Mandrake and was unable to boot the system without getting GPF's. Any ideas or similiar experience??

Dsense

You might try the different root disk:

"text.gz
The terminal-based installation disk for 1.44 meg drives. should use color.gz, but a few people have reported problems with it on their system. If color.gz doesn't work on your system, try text.gz."

http://www.slackware.com/install/rootdisk.php

Andrew

I'm DL'ing the color.gz right now, I don't see a text.gz anywhere I see it on the slackware page but not on the FTP's I'll keep searching. I didn't DL either of those when I first intalled slack. I DL'd the five install.* disks and rawrite. It installed fine on my Pentium system. huh. Thank you very much for the help and I'll let you know how it works out.
Peace.

I hadn't found the text.gz initially either. Then I looked for it on the Slackware 7.0 version and found it. Kinda wierd that it wouldn't be on the newer releases, huh?

Andrew