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.
if you read the whole screen it says you might not need to type anything here.
Just press Enter. But don't switch disks yet
oh, use the Color.gz root and some appropriate bootdisk.
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