Stupid question.. Installing SLack 8.1
 

When I use the boot disk, I get to the point where it says "Boot:" I click enter and then another menu comes up asking me to insert my "ROot disk" which i use the "color.gz" one.. I insert my root disk wich is "bare.i" the click enter and the following message comes up

UMSDOS: msdos_read_super_ failed, mount aborted

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
Read_super_block: Can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 64, size 1024)
Read_super_block: Can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 8, size 1024)
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

Now what does this mean?.. DO i have to first set up my file system to be ext3?
Righ now I have WIndowsME on the computer.. Any suggestions?

it sounds like you are using the wrong install boot disk

did you boot bare.i first or what?


bare.i is the boot disk, color.gz is the root disk. when asked for the disk put in the color.gz disk

If that's what you have then it would be the root disk was created incorrectly.

I fix it now.. But when I get to the point where I have to use Cfdisk or fdisk, when I type cfdisk it says "FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive press any key to exit cdfisk" and when I try using fdisk, I write fdisk /dev/hda .. It says unable to open /dev/hda.. ANy help?

look here

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


one of these images should work

it sounds like the bare.i will not work with your harddisk

is the drive ide? you might need to give the drive parameters at the boot prompt. make sure the bios is configured correctly and turn off plug and pray, see if it helps

WHich one do you suggest? I have an IDE HD, and CD-ROM...

Yes.. THe drive is IDE... And I even tryed all the others choices and none of them work...

SHould I partition my HD with the Redhat partition and then just mount the installation to that partition?

you might need to give the drive parameters at the boot prompt. make sure the bios is configured correctly and turn off plug and pray, see if it helps

hd="cylinders,heads,sectors"

hd="967,13,31"

you an get the parameters from the stickers on the drive. You can use the bios but it might be wrong, I would look at the drive to see.

does the bios use auto detect at boot?

I think that I will give up for now... I'll stay with Redhat, and try to install Slack on the weekend once again... I did the partitions with the Redhat CD, and formated them with the SLack menu, but when I get to the part where I have to install the packages, the following error comes out, ah and I have to say, that when looking for the source of packages i select CD-ROM and it finds the packages no problem.

Mount Error

Your source device cannot be accessed properly

Please be sure that it is mounted on /var/log/mount/slackware, and that the slackware disks are found in the subdirectories of /var/log/mount/slakware like specified

ANy suggestions?,, I really want to try SLack...

boreo..
hey i installed slack like two days ago..

u r much better off with bootable cd..
(less hassle)

just burn the iso like u would do for other distro..

you need to partition before install slack..
if u have ntfs file system, i would recommend partition magic8.

with my 30gig hard
i gave 8gig to xp, 2gig fat32, 20mg /boot, 3g /, 4g /home, 520mg swap, left to /usr/local
good luck!

I noticed that you're only using the one root disk. You should have one boot floppy (bare.i) and 5 root disks (color.bz). Perhaps this is part of the issue.

Also, WinME relies heavily on the plug 'n play utility in the BIOS--get rid of it (WinME that is ;)). Seriously, turn off PnP in the BIOS as suggested by DavidPhillips. You should also follow doublefailure's advice and use partition magic to shrink down your WinME partition.

I know that I installed and reinstalled Slackware about 6 times before I realized that I had a badly burned CD. Also, after I got the right CD I reinstalled about 6 more times with a good CD due to my own stupid errors.

You can also try using the Slackware Book which might be of use. Hope this helps.:D