Not to be an A$$hole but http://www.slackware.com/install/ I didn not find that at the above site, I'm using Slackware 7.0, from FDD, I don't have the CD's. And I'm going to use Debian because the documentation is straight forward and I have the 26 diskettes that I need. Sam Scot Jenkins wrote: >Sam, >you need install.1 and install.2 instead of color.gz as of about slack >8.1 and up. these are 2 diskette images that make up the "rootdisk". > >see the [cdrom|ftpsite]/rootdisks/README.TXT for full details > > >These are root-install disks for Slackware 9.1. > >If you are unable to boot the Slackware installation CD directly, you'll >need create these floppy disks in order to load the installer. In the past, >there's only been one rootdisk floppy called "color.gz", but now there are >2 floppy images (install.1 and install.2), and you'll need both of them. > > >Sam MacDonald wrote: > > >>Slack >> >>I'm having an issue installing Slackware. >> >>I find a fast ftp site and down loaded bare.i color.gz and network.dsk >>I ran rawrite to build bare.i and network.dsk diskettes without any error. >> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware/rootdisks >>color.gz is about 2.2 mb but I'll have faith that this will write properly >> 5 diskettes later I _can't_ get one that will write. >> so I format a diskette (windows 98) >>****************************** >>d:\slack\format a: >>Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? >> 1,457,664 bytes total disk space >> 1,457,664 bytes available on disk >> 512 bytes in each allocation unit. >> 2,847 allocation units available on disk. >>Volume Serial Number is 1A24-11ED >>Format another (Y/N)?n >> >>D:\slack>rawrite >>RaWrite 1.3 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette >>Enter source file name: color.gz >>Enter destination drive: a >>Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- : >>Number of sectors per track for this disk is 18 >>Writing image to drive A:. Press ^C to abort. >>*Bad sector detected Sector: 1 or 16 or 77...* >> >>I down load another color.gz from another site. >> color.gz is about 2.5 mb >>I get the same message every time I attempt to rawrite color.gz >>*********************** >>I go back to the slackware ftp site >> go in to slackware 7 >> the color.gz is about 1.3 megabytes >>**************************** >>Down load all new from slackware 7 >> Same problem WTF! >>Now after closing the command prompt and trying again the color.gz would >>write >>what was different? >> doskey. >> >>AHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! >> >>Sam. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list