Hello, I'm trying to install the latest revision of Slackware. I have a boot floppy with Speakup on it. At the prompt, I type: mount root=/dev/hdb01 which is my cdrom drive. The drive is found, but it says 'No initial console'. The Kernel Panic error states: "Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init option to kernel.". I've tried using rawrite to make a root floppy from the rootdsks folder on the CDRom and mounting that with: mount root=fda0 which is my floppy drive, thinking from there I could mount the CD. When I do this, I am prompted for the root floppy. After inserting it, I get the error "Kernel panic: Could not mount device hda0" which is my hard drive. It's still Fat16, but I intend to make it a native Linux partition: thus using these root floppies and the CDRom to do it. What's happening here? Am I missing something obvious? I'm a Windows user with only telnet experience to unix, so apologies for the basic questions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20000504/18bd56e4/attachment.html>
