Re: Installing Slackware on a CD-less pc..

[Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat]

You dont have to type anything in the boot prompt (normally). Just hit
enter. Installation should start. If still there is a problem, I suggest
you use RAWRITE.EXE from DOS to make the boot and root floppies. Oh,
before using RAWRITE, shutdown to MS-DOS, some say that RAWRITE does not
work properly under M$ windoze.

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Sony Lloyd Ponton wrote:

> Hi,
> Im installin Linux slackware 3.0 on a CD-less PC, and here what I had to do:
> Creatin a boot and Root floppy using a program called Lininst.
> Everything seemed ok(Ide disk controller, Floppy size3.5, Floppy Drive A:,
> Type of install=Text, I even tried Color.)..
> Then I booted my PC with the boot floppy, I had the `"welcome to slackware"
> message , then the boot prompt..But whatever I enter (root, mount /dev/hda,
> ramdisk=/dev/hda or fd0...), it says there s no image for that.
> Well, on my second diskette (the root disk), theres normally a kernel
> image..logically.
> The problem is that when I enter <ramdisk=/dev/hda or fd0> at boot prompt
> of my boot disk, and then insert the root diskette ..I see the system
> searching eternally for Ramdisk and stands eternally there..same thing if I
> enter root, or mke2fs /dev/hda or /dev/fd0..and then size of partition..or
> whatever (mount..etc..). Seems that I cant pass any argument at boot prompt
> of the boot disk (error like no such image..)..and when I insert root disk
> right away..it doesnt give any error message
> ..and seems to look at what I want..but eternally waits..waits..
> 
> Pls help
> 
> Sony L. 
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