🚀 go-pugleaf

(I haven't installed slackware in years, but . . .)

deezee@speednet.com.au (David Zulian) writes:
>jumper on the CDROM to Master but still no luck - the CDROM is
>connected to the sound card) So then I resorted to instalation via HD

If you're sure it's an IDE cd, you can force its detection at the bootdisk
lilo prompt with

	ramdisk hdX=cdrom

but replace with letter X with the appropriate letter for your drive, as
follows:
	first drive on first controller		- a
	second drive on first controller	- b
	first drive on second controller	- c
	second drive on second controller	- d

>of disks I had loaded everything.During instalation I was asked if I
>wanted to add DOS/OS2 partitions to be viewed within LINUX - and I
>chose to add them to /etc/fstab. Then I was asked if I wanted to add
>other DOS/OS2 partitions (I assumed I had already done this so I just
>used q = to quit) DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG BY DOING THIS ?

One of these questions might have been asking you whether you want to
boot other OSs from the lilo boot prompt, rather than mounting them
umder linux - but I'm not sure.  I doubt you've done anything wrong.

>CHECKING 386/387 COUPLING....OK, FPU USING EXCEPTION 16 ERROR
>REPORTING 

Linux is checking whether your math coprocessor talks correctly to
your CPU.  Since with 486+ machine they're on the same chip, of course
it succeeds.  This message is normal.

>PARTITION CHECK HDA: MULTIPLE MODE TURNED OFF
>                                 HDA: HDA1, HDA2, HDA3

The 'multiple mode turned off' message is the IDE driver telling you
that your drive (or controller I guess) isn't capable of using 
multiple mode (or is giving errors when doing so), so the driver is
turning the facility off.  This is probably normal.

>CHECKING FOR CD....UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT
>END_REQUEST: I/O ERROR, DEV 2100, SECTOR 64
>ISOFS_READ_SUPER:BREAD FAILED, DEV 0x2100
>UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT

Not so sure about this one.  I suspect that slackware is trying to
mount the CD at boot time in the rc scripts, and there isn't one in
the drive, giving you this error.

>STARTING PCMCIA SERVICES: INITIALISATION OF i82365 FAILED CARDMGR

Almost certainly just informing you that you don't have a PCMCIA
adaptor.

>Lastly could someone be kind enough as to answer a silly question like
>what is the command under LINUX which acts as TREE for MSDOS ?

Can't think of one, off the top of my head.  You can use the -R flag
to ls to show all subdirectories, but that's not the same.

 - Mike