Update: was Slackware 8.0 install error

[Gregory Nowak]

Are you sure you wrote the color.gz image to the disk? It sounds to me based on your error messages that you may have writen the umsdos.gz image, which is not what you want in your case.
As for making sure the disk is empty, the entire disk doesn't need to be empty, but you do need a part of it to be empty so that you can create a Linux partition.
If your windows partition takes up the entire drive, you will need to resize it with parted or fips for DOS, or some other comercial programs. This discussion was covered on this list in grate detail in the past, and should be archived.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:02:34PM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> Thanks for all of your help thus far.
> 
> Well I created two new floppy disks.  This time I used the rawrite
> windows version.  I used the speakup.i version from the speakup website
> since that is supposed to be better with ppp, but I used a different
> color.gz than the one on the speakup site.  This time I used the
> color.gz from the Slackware 8.0 install CD I had downloaded and burned.
> Results:
> Same boot time and 4:34 seconds before the synth started talking.  But
> when it starts talking, if I silence the speech and go to the last line,
> the root disk prompt is there.
> I inserted the root disk and got a lot further this time.  Speakup did
> not stop talking on me and I was able to get a couple errors off of the
> screen.
> 
> Error message number 1:
> UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
> 
> Error message number 2:
> Invalid session number or type of track
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c 
> 
> I don't know what to do.  Is it a space issue?  Should I boot to dos and
> format the hard drive so I know it is empty?
> Rodney
> 
> 
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