errors First error happened on step 7 when debian couldn't find any kernel components. I took the opportunity to set debconf priority to low (shouldn't have been necessary since I keyed in expert on what I think was the boot: line though I probably missed the boot: prompt by a mile. The thing was though I thought I had a boot: prompt since on booting I had to hit enter to bring the sound up. I tried mirror 20 and mirror 15 with identical results except I chose stable with mirror 15. This is strange since I did nothing other than put the slackware disk in the computer and booted up and connected to shellworld.net with no problem. Possibly saving error logs as I did to floppy blocked an actual network connection I don't know. I'll check the floppy and see what error lines I can find in the log later this week. I have to make dinner now and tomorrow night I break computers over at smartco.