Linux Install Help (Slackware)

[JokerF15]

Ok, im installing Slackware 8.0 beta off the ftp site. I also tried 7.1 and it does the same thing. I boot from the CD and it goes till it detects the Cdrom. Then it goes. Uniform Cd-Rom Driver Revision 3.11 and hangs right after that. Nothing goes past it. can't press num lock or anything. Only thing i can do is reboot.

Can someone help me! =)..

The faster the better..i need linux installed. And i dont want to go dl another distro cuz Slack is my fav! =).

Thanks.

 

[smp]

I'm not sure if this will help, but here goes anyways. I had a problem with this old comp that didn't boot off of CD. I tried to install mandrake on it with a mandrake boot floppy, but then it wouldn't recongnize the cdrom. I eventually booted off of a win98 disk and found the boot file and executed it. "Bad command or file name" and then it would just boot into the mandrake setup.. maybe you can try that?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is there anyway you can do an ftp install? Try removing the cdrom drive totally. Either setup ftp on another machine or just download from the slackware ftp. I had a similar problem with FreeBSD and that was the solution.