Well i installed zipslack then you had to boot zipslack with a boot floppy, I inserted the floppy and restarted the computer and yes it worked but you have to let that DOS thing when you restart what drive zipslack was installed in (I installed it to C drive) this is what it shows.

SYSLINUX 2.06 20003-08-22 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin

Welcome to Slackware Linux (v 9.1) Zipslack.s bootdisc!

By Default. this disk will boot a linux system on /dev/sda4. In an otherwise IDE based linux system with a zip drive connected to a SCSI card or parllel port this is probably the device to use.

To boot the default device (/dev/sda4) just hit ENTER. To boot other devices you'll have to enter some information on the 'boot' prompt below. Here are two examples of how a SCSI or parllel Zip drive:
mount root=/dev/sda4 rw
mount root=/dev/sdb4 rw

These examples work with IDE devices such as DOS partition on your hard drive.
Or IDE Zip drives:
mount root=/dev/hda1 rw
mount root=/dev/hda4 rw
mount root=/dev/hda5 rw
mount root=/dev/hdb4 rw

bootthis is where you have to write into to mount the drive that zipslack is in)

Hope this helps a little I've tried many times to get this working and it didn't work, I tried everything up on the screen and the same kind of error came up saying.
'Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:01'

These are the list of drives I tried to work out.
HDA1
HDA4
HDA5
HDA2
HDB4
SDA4
SDB4
SDA4
HDB1
HDBS
HDA3
HDB2
This is really getting me mad, I want real help now, I've been trying to test it over and over again and didn't get it right yet. The file inside linux is in is C:\Linux
My dad was sure that it was HDA1 or 2 but the same error came up above.

This is what the Zipslack page says about help this error:

""Q: Why does the boot process stop with this "Kernel panic" error?
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:04
Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 08:04


Well, you see, device 08:04 is the fourth partition on a SCSI drive (/dev/sda4). In most machines these days, there are no SCSI devices, only IDE ones. (NOTE: the parallel-port version of the Zip drive *is* treated as a SCSI device by Linux)

What you need to do is edit the LINUX.BAT file and change the uncommented loadlin line (without the 'rem') to boot the partition where you installed Linux. This is probably something like /dev/hda1 if you used your C: drive.

If you have no idea what the partition is, look right before it stops and you'll see something like:

hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
In this case, the partition must be one of: /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3. ""

So its telling me not to write the sw at the end of the sentence for example like
mount root=/dev/hda2
instead of
mount root=/dev/hda2 sw

Im really lost I need this Zipslack working so i can start using linux, i know since linux is unzipped to C: im sure that its meant to be hda1 but the same error keeps appearing
'Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:01'
anyone know how to this this problem ill be much greatful, please bother to read this since it took me a while to type so people could understand.

What kind of computer? If it's a laptop it may have C: in a strange place.
when it freezes you should be able to use the SHIFT key + PGUP to scroll up and see what partitions it sees.
You should always use the 'rw' (not 'sw') when booting ZipSlack. If using the boot floppy you don't have to do anything to linux.bat file.
with the boot floppy you'll need to give a boot parameter line like this:
mount root=/dev/hda1 rw
If you have DOS or Windows on the computer you might use the loadlin method to boot.
See some tips or download AMIGO linux which is basically ZipSlack with X and lots more.
www.amigolinux.org

No I have a desktop computer 'able to use the SHIFT key + PGUP to scroll up and see what partitions it sees'
For some reason it doesnt scroll up, when that error comes up, my scroll lock light and cap lock keeps turning off and on.
Yes maybe because i write it as sw instead of rw, I'll try again, but in the book i got that had zip slack it says'check that your hard disk isint formatted usin NTFS, and all of my hard drives are NTFS could it be because of this?

Well I'll take a look at AMIGO thanks for helping

EDIT
I tried download amigo http://amigolinux.org/download/Amigo2/amigo2rc9.zip but it doesnt come up.

In the above link it should be Amigo2rc9.zip instead of amigo2rc9.zip. Sorry, new web site still being proofed.
Sorry, ZipSlack will not run from an ntfs file system. You'll need a FAT partition for it to work.

We have partition magic 8 and my dad doesnt know how to make it a new drive and a FAT type with the program, If you know how to make a new drive about 300 mb inside thats on FAT32 type I'll appreciate it

Which Windows are you using? I think that in XP, at least, you can resize the partition with the Disk Manager and leave some empty space. You can then create a new DOS partition and format it with FAT filesystem.

I have XP proffesional, disk manager?? i think i saw that somewhere inside the home drive, but if you tell me exactly how to do it with disk manager thanks

I don't have XP running to be able to help you. search the forum. I think the topix has been covered.