Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 > Again, use cdrom instead of dev/hdb > dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0
> This is assuming that "bare.i" and "color.gz" are disk image files. > I guess from the name that the color.gz thing is a gzipped file, > you will probably want to gunzip it first. As far as I recall, the root filesystem image in the slackware install disks is supposed to be gzipped on the disk. It is unzipped into a ramdisk device at boot time, and then the ramdisk is mounted as /. (I don't understand exactly how this happens, like, where does the code that controlls this process come from when there is no file system yet?) -- Henning Makholm http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm