i actually got it now it was a miss hap yesterday of typing /dev/hdb or. something. lol i'm stupid ----- Original Message ----- From: "seth creature" <zorkmed@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: Re: slackware installation failed. > in short, yes, I have a drive that has hda1 win98, hda2 as the primary > boot partaitian, and hda3 as the swap. I chose the simple lilo > configuration, and chose to store lilo to the mbr, it doesn't install if I > use the expert mode but whenever I use the simple install, it does... > don't know why, but there it is. > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Farhan wrote: > >> Well i almost got slackware installed but i did the autobootloader >> config. i should of done the expert. thats my falt so. i had to reformat >> everything,. i'll get someone over here sunday and we'll have some >> floppies on hand to try it again. it was a lesson learned. lol i should >> install lilo to the mbr right? slakcware said it was slightly unsafe >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup