At the install fest, I put Slackware 7.1 on my desktop. It's a 1GHz Athlon, with a Biostar M7kb (or something m-board). I think it was also Ultra-100 controller onboard and I know it has the VIA chipset. Didn't run into any problems until I got to the Lilo config and also setting up XF86 to run Gnome on my SB Annihilator2 Geforce-2 card.. I booted off the downloaded iso cd-rom, and it installed like a charm. One thing to note is that I have my HDD and internal Zip-250 on one IDE controller and my CD-rom on the other IDE controller. On a side note, I've had to create boot diskettes for my older machines at home that don't have bootable cd-rom's. Had no problem there either on initialization. Possible bad cd? or ???? Don't know if that helps or not, but might be something there. Munir Nassar wrote: > i am trying to install Slackware 7.1 on my machine, > the problem is that i use a promise Ultra100 > controller in addition to the on-board VIA > controller... none of the kernels provided on the CD > work... > > how would i use a kernel of my own to install > Slakware? i tried to dd the kernel file to /dev/fd0 > but i only got a kernel panic when booting up... is > there something else/ different i have to do? > > -munir