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
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?
