What disks are you using? Also, if it's that new of a system I'd think it could boot off of the cdrom. When I loaded my Thinkpad (P2-266 i1720/390 series) it booted fine off of the cd. It sounds to me like you're using the wrong disks. Shawn Munir Nassar wrote: > go a question about installing slackware on a laptop, > > i try to install using the boot/root floppies, and at > some point, be it at the login prompt or while i am > doing fdisk or even bofore i put in the root disk it > just locks up... and two minutes later the computer > shuts down... > > is there a reason for this? am i missing something? > > anyways some info on the laptop: > its a CompUSA PII 300 with 64 Megs of ram and a 6.4 Gb > HDD > a Matshita CDrom, and all the other laptop stuff > > -munir