Installing Slackware: Need help.

Installing Slackware: Need help.

Post by cbrbur » Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:00:00



I am installing Slackware 3.2 on my computer. I have a Win-gen from
Computer
City.
It is a 300mgh computer with 64 megs of memory.
It has a Western Digital Ultra DMA 6.4gig hard drive and a Hitachi 24x
Cd-rom.
Western Digital:
 cylinders: 13328
 heads: 15
 sectors: 63

I partitioned the hard drive with Partition Magic.
hda1 is my Win95 Partition with hda3 an extended partition.
hda2 is my Linux partition. hda4 is my Boot Manager partition.

I got all the way through the install using first barepnp.i bootdisk and

then
bare.i.
Neither installation showed any directories except root upon completion.

Anyone out there have any help to offer?

 
 
 

Installing Slackware: Need help.

Post by I.J. Garli » Wed, 04 Mar 1998 04:00:00




> I am installing Slackware 3.2 on my computer. I have a Win-gen from
> Computer City.
> It is a 300mgh computer with 64 megs of memory.
> It has a Western Digital Ultra DMA 6.4gig hard drive and a Hitachi 24x
> Cd-rom.
> Western Digital:
>  cylinders: 13328
>  heads: 15
>  sectors: 63

(Drool!! Drool!!)

Quote:

> I partitioned the hard drive with Partition Magic.
> hda1 is my Win95 Partition with hda3 an extended partition.
> hda2 is my Linux partition. hda4 is my Boot Manager partition.

Not too sure you can do this! maybe someone else can help here.

When I installed Slackware 3.2 I used dos to delete a partion that I was
going to use and then left it blank.

From there it was just a case of following the installation instructions
to use the fdisk command that will be on the bare.i bootdisk. I had to
use this method because I could not read my CD at first (I know what I did
wrong then, it's easy with hind sight)

Quote:

> I got all the way through the install using first barepnp.i bootdisk and

> then
> bare.i.
> Neither installation showed any directories except root upon completion.

> Anyone out there have any help to offer?

Other than using Partition Magic (as I say you might well be able to do this)
I can not see anything wrong from the info you have provided:-)

--
Ian J. Garlick



 
 
 

1. Newbie needs help installing Slackware 3.4

My computer:
IBM PS/2 56 486SLC2 50Mhz
Microchannel Bus
IBM SCSI on-board adapter - Conner 212 MB SCSI HDD
8 MB's RAM (Two 4 meg simms)

I managed to install debain 1.3, but I really want to get slackware 3.4
on it.  I d/l'd the bootdisk "ibmmca.s" and the rootdisk "color.gz".  I
also d/l'd the A, AP, and N series of disks.  I boot off the image of
"ibmmca.s" and it seems to be working ok but it does not detect my hdd.
It asks for the root disk, which I give it, but then it just tells me
that I need to have a linux partition to continue with setup.  The thing
is, due to debian, i DO have a linux partition, just it can't find the
physical drive.  When I loaded debian I had to use the boot prompt
command "linux ibmmcascsi=7" to make it load, but when I tried that with
slackware it didn't like it.  I'm thinking that I should get the dev
file for my drive out of it and put it in the root disk image, then I
can mount it, but I don't know how to get into the image from
windoze95.  (It is a gz file that contains no distinguishable files)

Thanks,
Chris
--
Edward Christopher Kern



ICQ# 9984441

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