hallo,

i want to install slackware from a extern usb-cdrom. Unfortunetly i don't find the cdrom-drive at the devices.

so can anybody say how i have to boot to be able to mount the cdrom?
which kernel i have to boot and are there command line parameter i need for??


thanks

Someone will correct this if I'm wrong, but you should be able to boot with a scsi enabled kernel (scsi.i, I think) and then you would create your usb-cdrom mount directory (something like "md /mnt/usb-cdrom"), then mount /dev/sda1 on that directory, then you should be able to change to your usb-cdrom directory and run the Slack install from there. (When I use my external usb hard drive, it always shows up as /dev/sda1. Yours might be different)

Apologies if that description is too high-level... I'm assuming here that you're already booting up via floppy disks, and NOT that you want to boot from the usb cdrom drive.

thanks,

that's possible, but now i just connected an ide-cdrom to the pc... but probably you're right, because i was also able to mount my usb-stick this way