here is what i have: a Maxtor 27GB HDD on the Primary on-board IDE my cdrom drive as secondary master on the on-board controller my cdrw drive as secondary slave on the on-board controller the i have another two sub-1GB HDD on the primary promise controller and a Zip100 on the secondary Promise controller in other words: hda: Maxtor 27GB HDD hdb: nothing hdc: CDROM hdd: CDRW hde: WD 850MB HDD (i use this for swap) hdf: Seagate 1GB HDD (i use this for ghost images) hdg: nothing hdh: IOmega zip100 the problem is that the kernels that come with slackware do not recognize the Promise controller... (and yes i booted directly from the CDROM) the solution: use a different kernel Image to boot off of... how to do that: i already have Mandrake7.2 installed and the kernel has everything compiled into it, so why not use this kernel... (the question is how) as to why i am installing Slackware...simply because for some reason Mandrake will not compile a new kernel, even after installing all the C libraries i could find... i hope this resolves any confusions that may have come up... -munir IN-REPLY-TO: Message: 13 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:59:43 -0600 From: Shawn <fertch at mninter.net> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Slackware install Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org 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. ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT GIT dpu- s:- a19 C++ UL P+ L+(++) E--- W+ N+ w(--) K? O-- M- V- PS+ PE-(--) Y-- PGP-(---) t 5+++ X R tv-- b+++ D++ DI++ G e+ h+() r- y+ UF++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/