SW Linux boot question

[crobusa]

I'm trying out different distro's of linux to see which one I like best. I'm using a 500mhz P3 for my setup. It was able to boot off the red hat cd I burned just fine, but it won't boot my Slackware CD. (I tested it on another machine and sucessfully booted the cd.)

Now I've downloaded a bare.i file and wrote the image to a floppy. What command at the boot menu will let it continue with the CD installation? I've tried:
mount root=/dev/cdrom
mount root=/dev/hdc
ramdisk root=/dev/cdrom
ramdisk root=/dev/hdc

I either get some =init back to kernel and a panic or a can't find ramdisk and panic.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Calin]

Try to do a bootdisk for Slackware. You write the floppy with rawrite.exe, and the image is somewhere on the slackware install disk. The floppy disk will then use the data on CD to start the installation

Calin

 

[earthman]

You need two floppy images to do this kind of install, bare.i and color.gz, which let you create a boot and root disk. You start with the boot disk, then it should ask for the root disk, when that is loaded you run the setup shell script to get started. This is all in the slackware documentation.