during my slackware installation, i chose the recommended option of installing all the packages.
and then it stopped saying that it was installing some package (i forgot which one) and then the root@linux thing popped up at the bottom
so then i typed in yes and pressed enter thinking that it wanted a yes/no answer.
some bug then started making my screen all haywire and prinitng out the letter 'y' a lot of times and then i restarted my computer to find out that my slackware dvd was wiped clean?

It could be a bad burned DVD or a corrupted ISO image (if you burned the DVD yourself).

Double-check the md5sum of the ISO image before burning it, and burn it slower.

EDIT. Seems like you already asked this question in another thread?

It doesn't make sense that your DVD got wiped. This sounds more like you have a hardware problem.

If you do a cold boot ( turn the power off, then back on, ) does POST complete?

POST = Power on Self Test. Do you see ant error messages, or not normal beeping?

i can post and everything works fine, as im typing this from my windows xp x64 partition
how do i check the md5sum thing?
when i went to command prompt and did the md5sum, i got a string of characters but then what do i do to those characters?
the previous question was that i couldnt even burn the iso in the first place.
this dvd i got to boot and installation was going fine and dandy untill the package thing.

On the mirror you used to download the iso and in the same directory you'll find a file ending in .md5, e.g. ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/...ll-dvd.iso.md5.
Download it in the same directory where you did put the iso file, cd to that directory and issue following command:
It will tell you if the md5sum included as a text string in that file matches the one computed from the content of the iso file. If yes you can proceed to burnin the iso, else the iso is corrupted.

Or, you can issue following command:
and check yourself if the output matches the content of the md5 file.

To know more: 'man md5sum'.

This is from onebuck's post. See link on how to check your md5 checksum for your DVD:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...o-next-644746/

An alternative is to support Pat and the boys and buy the DVD...

Otherwise, I agree that it sounds like a corrupted image. Please know, if you didn't before, that many winblows programs do not handle large files well, especially IE. If you're downloading (versus torrenting) an iso image, you should strongly consider getting the winblows version of wget or lftp as this is a problem with the programs, not the underlying OS (AFAIK).

Just a sidenote: This is not a bug. With typing yes at the commandline you started the program yes. The only purpose of this program is to print the letter y to the standard output. A simple Ctrl+c would have stopped that.

i downloaded off a torrent and then i went and checked the md5 of both iso and .md5 file and they were different.
looks like ill have to find another torrent.

Did you compare the md5 of the iso with the number in the .md5 file, or did you run md5sum on the .md5-file?

i ran the md5sum on the md5 file, but then when i viewed it with notepad it matched.
i will redownload because i think i got the x86 version not the 64bit one because when i went to redownload the one that i downloaded was called "slackware" instead of "slackware64"(i found the torrent on the forum that directed me to the 64bit version).
and also what is the .asc file for?

You have to compare the md5 of the ISO with the checksum in the .md5 file.
For the .asc files, I don't know.

The .asc files are gpg signatures to verify the source of the files (ie Pat).

Either version will work.

Are you sure you are downloading official releases from the official torrent?

http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php

a little digression - i launched "yes hello world >> test" and aborted after 2 seconds. when i checked files size it was 657mb...then i tried to open it with leafpad and it consumed 4gb of my memory and 4gb of swap...and then i killed it :-)
interesting revelation for me :-)