Hi! On the official slink CD images, there are two different directories from which an install can be tried:
/install with boot.bat /dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22 with install.bat Both batch files seem to run installation systems that look alike. From trying a few weeks ago, I think that I remember that running /install/boot.bat yields a running system with kernel in /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36. I needed to mount the CD to install the base system since /install doesn't contain the base*.bin files. Today, I tried installing from /dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/install.bat. Installation went through fine, the kernel is /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-scsimod. This time, all the install needed was in the 2.1.8-1999-02-22 directory without needing anything else. However, the installed system dies with a kernel panic because it can't mount the root file system. I suppose that the other kernel (that is quite a few KB smaller than the one installed by the install system from /install) doesn't contain drivers for the NCR SCSI chip that my system has. Which directory am I to install from? Why does the other directory exist? How can I make the disks-i386-install-System install a kernel that actually works on my system? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29