I have done numerous slackware installs at work using my burnt disks. I
pop them in the CD drive boot the computer from the disk and all runs fine.

I have just tried to install slackware at home by doing hte same thing.
the computer boots from the CD fine I go through the install process, I
format my harddrive ( I already have one hard drive hda - with XP on it)
as follows
hdb1 - fat32 - /fat-d
hdb2 - ext2 - root
hdb3 - ext2 - /home
hdb4 - swap

I map hte keyboard, it sorts my swap partition out, I tell it where to
mount hte various partitions as above, then when it comes to look for the
source it can't find the disk. I even tried it manualy specify /dev/hdc
which is my cd drive.

Any idea why this would be?

Stuart

Stuart wrote:
> I have done numerous slackware installs at work using my burnt disks. I
> pop them in the CD drive boot the computer from the disk and all runs fine.
>
> I have just tried to install slackware at home by doing hte same thing.
> the computer boots from the CD fine I go through the install process, I
> format my harddrive ( I already have one hard drive hda - with XP on it)
> as follows
> hdb1 - fat32 - /fat-d
> hdb2 - ext2 - root
> hdb3 - ext2 - /home
> hdb4 - swap
>
> I map hte keyboard, it sorts my swap partition out, I tell it where to
> mount hte various partitions as above, then when it comes to look for the
> source it can't find the disk. I even tried it manualy specify /dev/hdc
> which is my cd drive.
>
> Any idea why this would be?

Have you tried boot with any of the other kernels?

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Stuart schrieb:

> I map hte keyboard, it sorts my swap partition out, I tell it where to
> mount hte various partitions as above, then when it comes to look for the
> source it can't find the disk. I even tried it manualy specify /dev/hdc
> which is my cd drive.

Is this really a cd reader? If you have cd burner it should be /dev/sr0

> Any idea why this would be?

Murphy solution: Maybe the cd is damaged?

Good luck!

Cheerz Lars

In article <pan.2003.12.02.08.47.47.468007@WSIT01.WORKGROUP >,
Stuart wrote:
> mount hte various partitions as above, then when it comes to look for the
> source it can't find the disk. I even tried it manualy specify /dev/hdc
> which is my cd drive.
>
> Any idea why this would be?

Clues might be found on tty4 or in dmesg. Check dmesg to be sure the
drive was identified.
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