HD not detected update

[Tommy Moore]

Hi Chuck. The only other thing I can think of that could cause the install 
disk ot not find the hard drive would be that the controler that the drive 
runs on isn't supported by the installation kernel. Do you know what 
motherboard your friend has in her machine? Maybe there's some info on the 
slackware site about installing on machines with that particular mother 
board. Another way you can test is to put the drive your going to install 
on to in the machine by itself and boot and this will tell you if its a 
problem with the drive or the kernel not detecting the controler.
if slackware has udma66 boot disks this is what you'll probably want to 
use though. Been a while since I've installed slackware so I don't know if 
they have a disk for this like debian does.
If your needing to add speakup in to that kernel for making a talking boot 
disk download the kernel source tree that slackware uses and in the 
kernels directory on the cd it should have directories for all the kernels 
slack supports and inside there you should find the configuration file 
used to build that kernel.
Copy this to .config in /usr/src/linux and patch the tree with speakup and 
then go:
make oldconfig
TAnd answer the speakup questions then make dep and make bzImage and send 
her the kernel.
Also when doing this its probably easier to use loadlin for the install so 
that you don't have to play around with boot floppies.
If the user does not need speakup then a dd image of what ever floppy 
you'll need will work too.

Tommy