These are the things Ive tried (as crazy as they may sound...)
1) booting from cd (failed to read disk as bootable)
(booted other cd's including gentoo, slack8.0, mandrake)
(tried a different computer)
(tried another cdrom (3 now)
swaped cd drives (master /slave)
all resulting with the same failure on slakware8.1, but 8.0 worked....
made boot disk (boot disk works (still need root to boot to install...)
made root disk with initrd.img on slackware cd
(failed to uncompress image, and did give errors when writing to floppy disk)
I tried a few floppies, with the same results, and I downloaded another
initrd.img file from a slakware mirror site... all root disks failed.
Slackware has a new root disk deal... they now use 5 or 6 root disks... the
did include initrd.img as a "old way" compatibility deal... but I cant get it
to work... I hate floppies... I dont want to make 6 floppy root disks...
so... I can make a boot disk, and it seems to work, but it doesnt want to
read the cdrom as a boot device... (on my 550 and my 333 box's)
sigh... when will these things just install themselves... then just leave us
a little note saying how much the computer enjoyed upgrading itself :)
Jamie
Sometime just before Tuesday 09 July 2002 10:49 pm Bob Crandell Wrote
about:[EUG-LUG:3369] Re: wireless hell...
: If your floppy works and your CD, even though it won't boot from it, what
: happens when you boot from floppy and run the install?
:
: Can you get a set of 2.4.18 boot floppies?
:
: Linux Rocks ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
: >So... I got to spend the day trying to get the wireless cards working in
: >linux... Since I cant compile on the laptop, i have to do it on the
: >workstation (running the same os (slackware 8.0, 2.2.19 kernel)). I ve
: > been compiling stuff (pcmcia_cs ??.34), and the wlan-ng stuff.. Things
: > compiled fine, I copied all the files i thought it made to the laptop...
: > It givese me unresolved symbol errors trying to load prism2_cs (module).
: >On the workstation it loads the module, but I get an error about nextTuple
: >and Vcc (i guess it doesnt like the voltage...). Anyway If I could get
: >slack8.1 to install, I might be able to get it working (rather than using
: >bits and peices of this and that...)
: >
: >anyone familiar with nexttuple errors? how to easily fix my unresolved
: > symbol problems, or how to get my slackware 8.1 cd to work (install!)
: >
: >Jamie
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