Hello everyone! :-D Long time no see, eh! :-) Alright... so I bought this computer for $6.88 from America's Thrift Store. It came with Windows 95, but the screen was wide, so I decided to take the "goods" from it and then install some Linux. I tried with Fedora first, but I had these problems: (Note: You can skip this paragraph.) 1. The CD came with no bootdisk images, so I had to use a Win98 disk and LoadLin. 2. LoadLin didn't work, can't remember error. 3. I had to download a set of 6 disks, and I had to interchange them with the only 2 floppies I had... 4. Once I got to the installation, it crashed while doing some hard drive stuff, with a long series of error messages. Then, I tried Slackware: 1. When I used RawWrite with the "bzImage" file under /kernels/bare.i/, I got an error message: "ran out of input data -- System halted" 2. When I tried LoadLin, I got this: "invalid compressed format (err=1) -- System halted" Both of those errors, I got them after this message: "Uncompressing Linux..." Anyone's got a cause for this? Thanks! ;-) http://sulfurmidis.com/sulfursoft http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?

I just checked the MD5 sums of the files with FastSum, and they were identical to the .md5 files that came with the ISO. So there's nothing wrong with the discs... Thanks! ;-) http://sulfurmidis.com/sulfursoft http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?

I got it! I downloaded a bootdisk from www.allbootdisks.com, but now it's asking me for a RAM disk image... I stuck these files into a floppy: bzImage config System.map.gz It seemed to work, but now I get: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. http://sulfurmidis.com/sulfursoft http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?

The bzImage file is a kernel image which contains x86 boot information making it bootable, however booting a kernel directly is not advisable. Generally, a bootloader passes options to the kernel before it loads. The preferred way to prepare a boot floppy is to rawrite bootdisks/bare.i (or one of the others if you need the drivers) to a good disk. Then you'll have the syslinux bootloader to properly boot the kernel image, but it still expects a ramdisk containing init, the program that starts all others (also contained in the ramdisk) as required to eventually get the system to a useful state. This ramdisk would normally be automatically sourced from the bootable CD, but in your case you'll need another two floppies, rootdisks/install.1 and rootdisks/install.2.

Hmmm... And where do I get these 2 disks from? They're not on the rootdsks/ folders on either of the sites I got the images from... Thanks very much! ;-) http://sulfurmidis.com/sulfursoft http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?

Pick one of the Slackware mirrors, and it's in slackware-10.2/. For example, Slackware 10.2 release on tds.net mirror.

Yeah. Thanks! ;-) http://sulfurmidis.com/sulfursoft http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx If I connect my microwave to my PC, will I be able to download food?