ZipSlack boot problem!

Wirrun · 09-10-2004, 03:59 AM

Sers,
I have a Problem booting ZipSlack.
I unpacked it correctly and with all Paths and the Swapfile, onto the C drive of my old notebook. When I'm booting now, its loading VMlinuz and stuff. But then Suddenly the whole screen fills with chars and other symbols and a second later the notebook reboots.

Hopefully you can help me.

MFG,
Wirrun

gnashley · 09-10-2004, 09:19 AM

How are you booting -lilo, loadlin or?

Wirrun · 09-10-2004, 10:03 AM

via loadin with the linux.bat
i edited it to hda1

Wirrun · 09-10-2004, 01:05 PM

i also tried it with boot disk.
But even there it only gets to the line, "uncompressing linux..."
And a few seconds later it crashs and for another few seconds
the screenbuffer is filled with various chars.

gnashley · 09-10-2004, 04:43 PM

Probably an unzip problem. what did you untuip with? Is this running inside a windows installation? which windows?
what size and type are your partitions?
where is zipslack.zip being unzipped from?

Wirrun · 09-10-2004, 06:02 PM

It runs from MS-DOS 7.10!?
I unzipped it on my Desktop and packed it to 1.44 MB rar files which i copied to the Notebook and testet there, they were alright.