Hi all, I have tried Slackware once before on an old machine of mine, which while not having a clue about, I did enjoy, however, I thought I'd might like to try it again on my nice new shiny win7 thing:
Operating System new – server roles System Model
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 20/04/2012 16:55:53 Acer Aspire X3450
System Serial Number: PTSG0E2024149093939201
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.10 gigahertz AMD Athlon II X4 645
512 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: Acer Aspire X3450
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P01-A2 10/29/2011
new USB Storage Use in past 30 Days (mouse over last used for details) new Hosted Virtual Machines (mouse over name for details)
Last Used
Generic- Compact Flash -- drive 1, s/n 058F63616476, rev 1.01 04/06/2012 14:22:34
Multiple Flash Reader -- drive 2, s/n 058F63616476, rev 1.05 04/06/2012 14:22:34
None discovered
Drives new – drive encryption Memory Modules c,d
1968.69 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1892.53 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N ATA Device [Optical drive]

Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Multiple Flash Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
WDC WD20EARS-22MVWB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAZA8029709, rev 51.0AB51, SMART Status: Healthy 5882 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM4' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB
Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption


c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 722.64 GB 647.95 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 722.64 GB 721.28 GB free
h: (NTFS on drive 0) 523.41 GB 523.30 GB free

* Operating System is installed on c:
Network Drives
None discovered
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Mog 04/06/2012 14:22:45 (admin)
Rift and Raft 30/05/2012 20:30:28
local system accounts
Administrator 09/12/2011 18:04:48 (admin)
Guest never
HomeGroupUser$ never

DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account

Microsoft Shared Fax Driver on SHRFAX:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort:
Controllers Display
ATA Channel 0 [Controller]
ATA Channel 1 [Controller]
ATA Channel 2 [Controller]
ATA Channel 3 [Controller]
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller ATI Radeon HD 4250 [Display adapter]
ViewSonic VE702m [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n PJH050402868, January 2005)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (3x)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (4x) AMD High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio
Virus Protection [Back to Top] Group Policies
avast! Antivirus
None discovered
Communications new – connection speed & status Other Devices

802.11n Wireless LAN Card
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
↑ Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.0.9 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Dhcp Server: 192.168.0.1
Physical Address: F8:0F:41:35:44:8B
Connection Speed: 100 Mbps
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

Networking Dns Servers: 194.168.4.100
194.168.8.100
USB Input Device
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (7x)
Generic volume shadow copy
F:\
G:\
however when I boot from disc, and it asks me for kernel, it gives me some message about corrupt kernel... I have read something about a thing called md5, which I downloaded in windows, dragged and dropped the iso file into it:
sorry for the huge post, but wanted to make sure I have all the relevant info to hand...
am I missing anything, or doing something wrong?
any other info needed, I'll be pleased to post, as I would really like to get Slackware working.
many thanks for your time.

Mog.

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md5sum is a way to check with a very low margin of error that the file on your hard disk is identical to the original one, that is to say not corrupted.

Look for the md5sum file, ending in ".md5" which correspond exactly to the .iso file you downloaded on the repository from which you downloaded it.

Then download this .md5 file, open it e.g. with notepad and copy/paste the content (which will be one characters string) on the second field and click "verify".

It will tell you if the .iso file is OK or not.

the iso seems corrupted,
which does not correspond to the screenshot's value

I'll take your word for that, and try again... have been trying, but as simple as the md5sum thing might be, I've been having a nightmare with it, not really knowing what I need or need to do.

Will report back if anything changes.

Many thanks again.

Mog.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Md5sum

correct way to check md5sum on an iso

john

forgive if I am being naive, but I am guessing that it is for use in a linux system?
or should I boot from disc and then try the commands the site is suggesting?

thanks.

Mog.

You are right, this article is for Linux. You have done it the right way and it shows that your downloaded ISO is corrupted. Download it again and give it another try, with checking the md5sum first, of course.

thanks for all the posts and help, I finally got it sorted, and am even online too... though not sure how, just played with it a little bit, and it worked lol (really am hopeless)
when I can find the solved button and hit that I will.

my thanks to all again.

Mog.

forgot to mention... I downloaded slackware 13.37 iso using utorrent in windows, and the md5sum number was matching, so from the info you gave, I knew it was good to go.
Thanks again.