Thu Sep 15 17:51:52 CDT 1994 Q: There are so many bootdisks! Which one should I use? A: Here's a little table to help you decide. In each box, the best choice will be at the top of the list. Other disks you might try if the recommended choice doesn't work are preceded by a (*). If you can't install directly from your CD-ROM, you might consider copying the disk directories onto your hard drive on a DOS or HPFS partition and installing from there. A little about the alternate choices: "old1118" is an older 1.1.18 kernel, included just in case. If you system turns out to need this, you might also have trouble booting the installed system. In that case, use the 1.1.18 disk to boot the installed system, too. "alpha" is a bootdisk containing a few alpha SCSI drivers (IN2000, 274x, EATA). "loaded" is a last resort - a disk with as many drivers as possible compiled into it. My guess is that most machines would have trouble booting it, but you never know. -- Pat ------------\ Target hard drive type: Slackware \ source on: \ IDE SCSI MFM --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Floppy: | bare | scsi | xt | * old1118 | * old1118 | | | * alpha | | | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Hard Drive: | bare | scsi | xt | * old1118 | * old1118 | | | * alpha | | | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- SCSI CD-ROM: | scsi | scsi | | * old1118 | * old1118 | | * alpha | * alpha | | * loaded | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- | mitsumi | mitsumi | Mitsumi CD: | * old1118 | * old1118 | | * loaded | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Sony CDU31a | cdu31a | cdu31a | or CDU33a CD: | * old1118 | * old1118 | | * loaded | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Soundblaster, | sbpcd | sbpcd | Panasonic, | * old1118 | * old1118 | Kotobuki, | * loaded | *loaded | Matsushita, | | | & Lasermate | | | CD-ROM: | | | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Sony 535/531 | cdu535 | cdu535 | CD-ROM: | * loaded | * loaded | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEC 260 IDE | nec260 | nec260 | CD-ROM: | * loaded | * loaded | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- NFS: | net | scsinet | | * old1118 | * old1118 | --------------+------------------+------------------+------------------------- Tape: | bare (for floppy | scsi | xt (for floppy tape) | tape) | alpha (for SCSI | | scsi (for SCSI | tape on IN2000 | | tape) | or EATA) | | alpha (for SCSI | * old1118 | | tape on IN2000 | * loaded | | or EATA) | | | * old1118 | | --------------+------------------+------------------+-------------------------