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From: jim bowman <jlb@superguru.net>
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yes  to all 3 questions, both hard disk and floppies ar identified, i
do get to the prompt asking for the root disk, and i have downloaded
and  wused rrawrite the disk each time and still no sucess. hthanks 
jim



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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Georgina wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've not had any trouble with Slackware 8.  Could you clarify a few things?
> 
> Does the kernel identify your devices ok?  You can use the navigation keys
> to read up the screen?
> 
> You do get to the point where you're prompted for the root disk?
> 
> You did rawrite color.gz to the floppy that your inserting at this point?
> 
> Have you tried doing the color.gz disk again?
> 
> Gena
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of jim bowman
> Sent: 15 November 2001 04:43
> To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: slackware 8.0
> 
> 
> hi did anyone else but me have trouble installing slackware 8.0?
> i have made the ddisks as instructed and entered the necessary info to
> identify my synth and it comes up talking to that point however when i
> try to load the root disk , it refuses to load with a error message :
> kernet panic unable to load root at 2:1c.
> anyone have any ideas, any help would be appreciated.
> thanks
> jim bowman
> 
> 
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