Installing Packages Fails: Silently
 

This is what I am doing:
My cdrom drive on my thinkpad 380Z is going and has sporadic read errors in certain areas, so I am installing packages from a fat32 partition on the same disk as I am installing slackware to. So far I have made a freeDOS partition on the harddisk. I boot to bare.i with the following command:

loadlin C:\boot\bzimage rw initrd=C:\boot\initrd.img root=/dev/ram load_ramdisk=1

I copied bzimage from the bare.i and initrd from isolinux on the slackware-10.2-d1 CD image to boot on the freeDOS partition.

Kernel loads good. My fat32 partition is /dev/hda8 and after I login I mount it using:

mkdir /inst
mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /inst

The root of hda8 is simply the install cd. So that /inst/slackware is the package directory.

I had partitioned my disk previously in parted. And I go through and setup my swap and format partitions. This all goes good. I select my source as a pre-mounted directory /inst. All the packages show up on select software. And I choose them all. Then in install I choose full.

**Breath**

This is where things get messed up. The packages install in a second :eek: with a flash of text. Then it says that I've finished Install and Configure and to hold Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot.
This is the first time I've installed slackware.

Anyone have any ideas?

sorry about the dubba

I was able to complete the install by putting the actual iso's on hda8 and loop mounting them during the install. Not sure why my original method did not work. But I'm up and running anyhow.