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Slackware installation problems



I was trying to reinstall Slackware 3.3 on my machine, which
consistently failed. I followed the directions in the distribution to
move to Linux with loadlin, and got this:

Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

The same thing happened to me when I put the same things on boot & root
disks, that is - everything was OK till I was asked to put the rootdisk
in the drive, after which it claimed it can't find a gzipped image.

After this took place, I thought that the CD might have been damaged, so
I used the B&W rootdisk instead (and also the rescue disk), which didn't
help as well - same results. Desparately enough, I changed the tactics:
I tried to install Slackware 3.2 from a CD that I had already installed
from in the past on the same machine. No change.... the last resort was
trying to install Slackware 3.0 (!!!), but this ALSO had similar effects
- getting stuck after switching disks during boot.

Desparately enough, I decided I might bring my computer's hardware to
some "known to work in the past" state, so I removed some SIMMs from it,
new HDs, and some other new hardware, but zilch... still no boot.

I would install Redhat (unwillingly) if i knew it would work, but I
would really rather get Slackware on my machine.

If relevant, this is a pentium 133 machine, 24 MB of memory, one 1.44"
floppy, IDE CD and some other stuff, everyting inside is "standard" in
Linux terms. And this machine was able to install Linux in the past (a
few weeks).

Can anyone help me?....

Nadav