EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED. =)

it can be that you are using a crappy cd-r media and you are burning it in a speed not supported by it, when i burned Slackware for the first time the cd-1 would not install some of the packages, so i burned again in a slower speed and it worked.

IMO you really don't need the second cd, it only has a old version of KDE a GNOME, its better to install slack without KDE and GNOME, use some other GUI like fluxbox instead, download swaret, and install the current version of KDE/Gnome with swaret.

eckola, if you are going to edit your posts after finding a solution, it would be more helpful to others if you could leave your original description of the problem and post the resolution that you found. That way, if someone else has the same problem, they can search and find your solution, rather than starting a new thread and waiting for a response

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Oh, I would like to take this oppertunity to ask mr. Cpu of the dead what command you used to install the most current gnome with swaret? I just did >swaret --update<
and than
>swaret --install gnome<
It downloaded al long time and after that it installed everything and then gnome didn't work anymore. Should I have used --upgrade? Or...??? (Yes i've set the swaret.conf to current )
I currently use dropline gnome but now the trash can doesn't open and some advanced functions of nautilus don't work. I have the feeling that dropline gnome uses sort a "unstable" versions of packages, if so is everything from slackware current classified as stable?
Thank you in advance!

no idea why it didn't work, when i upgraded my gnome from 2.4 to 2.6 using swaret it also would not work, later i installed dropline-gnome and it worked

answer to the trash problem:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=dropline

about nautilus, there is a way to set it up to use more advanced functions, but i don't use gnome that much and i don't remember where to set things up for nautilus...

and the packages in the current slackware folder are not considered stable, 9.1 is the stable version, current is like a testing/unstable folder.

The original problem:

Slackware 9.1's install kept rejecting copies of the #2 install cd.

The reason being, I was extracting the data from the ISO and burning the files using Windows XP's integrated cd writing 'feature' since I'd recently had a drive failure and was running a fresh install of Windows XP. Slackware's install on the other machine evidently didn't like that.

The solution:

After getting Nero and burning the ISO directly, it worked.

Silly problem. Easily fixed.

I have had the same problem, however, that solution did not help. I have tried to install 9.1 on a Dell inspiron 3000 - although it boots of the disk, soon as I try and install, it does not recognise the CDROM as installation media, which I thought was wierderz as it is still running the setup of the CD ??? I have got it to install on a PC (it went on a clients old P2 real nice, got me all excited and thought I would give it a go, benchmark it aginst my BSD install) and it also will not install CD2, cannot mount the disk. The first CD was from LINUX Format magazine, and I downloaded and burnt the second CD. I would have suspected the second CD as faulty, but I have installed from it on 2 machines out of five, so it must be OK
As for Gnome, on the one that would work, I also could only get dropline going as well. Having big probs on my BSD upgrading to Gnome2 as well, there is a script for BSD to help update the dependancies, and theoretically get Gnome to work, (no success personally with it) not heard of one for Linux though.

Well, you can always ignore CD #2 altogether like Necronomicom said, and then install Gnome later. I'm just anal retentive, so I wanted to get it to install it from the cd. Hehe.

To psyche101

I've once copied a nice feature from a mandrake disk which once written on a floppy allows you to choose your boot device by a nice menu when booting this floppy, this helped me get slack on an old laptop. It's on the first disk I believe. If you have an easy way of making an iso of the floppy and then getting it to you, i 'd be glad to help. I don't know if this will solve your problem though since you are already booting the cd... hmm i wouldn't know anything else. Did you get to the piont where you can choose your kernels? Maybe another kernel will work, the bareacpi.i has special laptop support (allthough maybe only for pcmcia stuff) and the xfs.s kernel worked on my desktop... good luck.