Only a guess, I'm afraid, but it sounds like a flaky floppy drive. The
bootdisk is only about half full, but the rootdisk uses every track, so a
problem that occurs only near the inside track will show up only on the
rootdisk (but will show up on all of them).
As to what to do ... does your BIOS allow for CD-ROM boots? A Slackware 3.6
CD should be able to boot itself. If that's not an option, try going into
the (CD) directory /rootdisks/obsolete and try the version of color.gz or
text.gz that's in there. These are older, smaller filesystems with a
somewhat clunkier install procedure than the newer Slackwares use, but the
smaller size might solve your problem.
At 04:55 PM 2/6/99 -0500, Nathan Lamb wrote [excerpts only]:
>The system I am trying to install LINUX Slackware 3.6 (Kernel Version
>2.0.35) on is a Pentium 133 MHz computer with 32 MB of DRAM. It has a STB
>NITRO 3D video card which uses the S3/ViRGE chipset, a D-LINK Ethernet card,
>and a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16. It uses an older TOSHIBA 8X CD-ROM.
>
>I have used RAWRITE.EXE to make disk images of BARE.I and COLOR.GZ. I made
>these images on brand new, low-level formatted 1.44 MB floppy disks. I
>insert the disk with the image of BARE.I into the computer and power it on,
>and it works. The install gets to the part where it asks for you to insert
>the root disk, and at this point I insert the disk with the COLOR.GZ image
>and press Enter as indicated. However, I get no further, as I get a
>different error message almost every time I try this.
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