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creedon:
Wow, I'm really surprized that the install CD isn't bootable; even Debian advises against using boot/root floppies anymore; they consider the floppy  to be too unreliable for installing, instead, the CD's have a bootable partition that eliminates the floppies from the procedure.  I was thinking about trying Slackware, but this kinda makes me think I don't want to.

HPC GUY:
im not sure maybe its something i did wrong. i dont loaded the iso for it and tried to boot off of it and nothing...all the stuff is there..but its not bootable.

KernelPanic:
Slackware should be bootable, but maybe you burned it wrong. Anyway, maybe you should try burning it again before you try the boot/rootdisk method because that takes 6 floppies and is a pure pain in the arse, at least it was on my 486      

When I installed Slackware on my main machine though the CD boots up just fine.

[ October 05, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]

HPC GUY:
thats weird...when i attempt to rawrite the bare.i image to disk it gives an odd error and says attempting to write across 64k boundary and then nothing happens..

TheQuirk:
When I installed Slackware (prior to ver.  8) it booted off the CD.

Check your BIOS, maybe it boots the HD before the CD...

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