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class=180440811-04052000>Hello,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>I'm trying to
install the latest revision of Slackware. I have a boot floppy with
Speakup on it. At the prompt, I type:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>mount
root=/dev/hdb01</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>which is my cdrom
drive. The drive is found, but it says 'No initial console'. The
Kernel Panic error states:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>"Kernel panic: no
init found. Try passing init option to kernel.".
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=180440811-04052000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>I've tried using
rawrite to make a root floppy from the rootdsks folder on the CDRom and mounting
that with:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=180440811-04052000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>mount
root=fda0</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>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</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>"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. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=180440811-04052000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180440811-04052000>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.
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