i downloaded the slackware 9.1 iso and md5summed it and it came out woth the wrong response. When i burned it to test it out, it said it was a mandrake cd so i decided to try again with a new file. I tried a second mirror, got the wrong md5sum, and again tried the disk. The cd again told me that it was a mandrake but then i used the slackware boot and root floppies where i cfdisked my 2 hard drives (1.5 gig and 1.1 gig) but when it got to the installation part, it said it would install the "A" package but one step later, it said that the files could not be read by the system or something like that. Is anyone else having this problem or does someone know something about this? i don't know what to do.

I used BitTorrent to download Slackware 9.1 and the md5sums were exactly right. Since then I've left the bittorrent windows open and served about 10.2Gb to other people downloading the install CDs.

You've got the Slackware installer floppy, with a Mandrake CD in the the drive. Done that when I had a couple of cd's not labled. I suggest using the superboot manager disk if you need it to get a system to boot from cdrom that does not support it. Get the iso image of Slackware and burn it to cdrom, or order it. Set bios to boot from drive a: and boot with the sboot.mgr disk in drive a: and the Slackware cd in the cdrom drive. Note that you will most likely need to edit files in /etc/rc.d to get sound working, and also run xf86config if the x-windows has problems starting with the startx command. BTW, Slackware boots up to a terminal and not a graphical environment, so you have to startx. The good thing about Slackware is that is runs better on older systems then all the others I've tried. Use KDE as root to configure and admin system, and Gnome as user for relaxed use (Gnome is just soooo easy:o))