[Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1

[Guy Edwards]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:42, Alex Craddock wrote:
> Guy: I read your link but I couldn't see how I could use it to help me.  I'm 
> relatively inexperienced at Linux and often have problems like this 
> installing it.  So at the moment I am kind of stuck if you all don't know 
> what to do... I looked on www.slackware.com but couldn't find any specific 
> support for my problem.  I don't think it is the actual media that is bad, 
> although it could be.  As a rule of thumb it is better imho to assume that 
> it is a problem with the setup/my computer before assuming it is a bad
>  disk.

oh dear, pass that reading hat, I've just realised it's Slackware not Suse 
(glows red) the title of the end of the thread being obscured by my mail 
client (insert more excuses here). ok that link would have been pretty 
useless in that case, sorry. 

It does describe bios settings to try that could be giving problems and also 
describes the key combinations that you press to bring up a text based console 
that shows all the messages the install program is giving off in the 
background that you wouldn't normally see. these might help you work out whats 
going wrong.

Failing that, what about bringing it along to the next meeting and letting the 
slackware people in the group have a look at it? (Francis?)

Guy