I downloaded Slack 9.1 and burned both disks to cd-r, and installed fine.
I just downloaded Slack 10.0 and had to burn the first cd to a cdrw (because that was all I had) and the second to a cd-r.
All 4 disks were burned the same way with nero, all 4 isos were first checked with md5.

I'm getting errors on installing the Slack 10 from the cdrw. It's saying packages may be corrupt. Is it a bad idea to burn these on cdrw? I just ordered a bunch!

Can I install Slack 10 by directing the install to my hd? I can boot the cdrw fine, and get all the way up to actually installing packages.

Edit: Could someone do me a favor? Put your Slack 10.0 disk 1 and 2 into your cd drive, and tell me how much space it uses? I'm wondering if my disk ran out of room, but Nero didn't tell me!

Edit number 2: It was the disk. I burned it again using a regular cdr, and it worked. It's a little bothersome, though, because both disks read as being the same size with the same amount of data. So why would one work and not the other?

Linda,
I just installed my Slack 10 tonight. Reading your post, I burned the Disk 1 ISO to a CD-rw to see if the disk made a difference, and I was able to boot my laptop (running Win2K only) from it. I suspect the reason you were unable to boot was either a bad burn, bad disc, or an older cd rom drive. Some older CD rom drives can not read RW's as well as CD-r's. I used K3B to burn the disc also rather than Nero, but to install it on my desktop I used Nero to burn my iso's (and burned them onto CD-r's) just so I could keep them.

Hi

I had the same problem, when the installation of the packages started all of the packages were corrupt or "file not found" etc. I burnd all the isos to cd-rw but the problem was that i used partion magic to set up the partitions for slackware.
After i erased these partitions and made them again with cfdisk the installation went fine.

All i did was re-burn the disks onto a cd-r, and the install worked fine for me. I have always partitioned my drives with partition magic, and then used those partitions with Linux. I never had any problems with Partition Magic (so far!). I do remember that at one time I allowed Mandrake to set up my partitions, and then had problems when I was in Windows. Or maybe with using Partition Magic after Mandrake did it's thing. I don't remember now, but I haven't had any problems with allowing PMagic doing its thing.