On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 12:43 US/Central, Sam MacDonald wrote: > 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. > diskettes! WTF! :-) Just kidding of course ;-) BTW your first error looks like bad media to me, not a bad disk image. > 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 > > -- Ben Lutgens http://us-admins.com/~blutgens/ US Admins, Inc System Administrator / Server Gumby _______________________________________________ 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