Hello, I am currently installing zipslack on an older laptop computer and I am having a problem getting it to load. When I first got everything copied onto the HD (had to use laplink--bad floppy drive) I changed the kernal over to bare.i, since I have no scsi devices, by copying bzImage into c:\linux and renaming it vmlinuz. I also copied system.map and config into c:\linux\boot. The kernal starts to load and runs for a bit, but then I get a series of lines like this: INIT: version 2.84 booting INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.S" INIT: Entering runlevel:3 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.M" INIT: cannot execute "sbin/agetty" (this repeats several times) INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes I have found a reference to changing a line at the top of the inittab file from "/bin/sn" to "-s /bin/bash /bin/sn" or recopying some of the files in question (perhaps there was a transfer error?) Also, I've seen references to editing and saving these files in vi or some other unix editor, but since I can't get into linux is there anyway to do this from dos/win3.1? What else can I do? Thanks, Samboe

Sounds like your install is botched. Try reinstalling?