Here's hoping Mandrake works a little better for you. ;) good luck!

P.S. Slackware 7.1 will not boot with a seperate /boot partition, thus giving 
you the 'kernel panic: no init found' error you were getting. I have no clue 
as to why that is when other distros have no issue with it. I noticed that 
when I downloaded the beta a while back.

As for a partitioning scheme... (yeah, old topic, I don't post often)
If you're going with EXT2, then I would have a seperate /boot, /, and /home 
partition. If you plan to use ReiserFS with Mandrake (it's available), I 
would use the same partitioning scheme- but be sure to format /boot as EXT2 
and everything else can be Reiser.

heh. I have a Linux cd collection 6 inches stacked. (just cd's, no cases). 
even got my first distro still around somewhere (unknown Slack version, had 
the 0.98-pre1 kernel, I believe) hacking your own modelines in X and 
recompiling the kernel for CD support, those were the days.

again, good luck!

tom

On Friday 02 February 2001 07:55 am, Bradley Miller wrote:
> Ok -- I've played around with some settings on trying to get Slackware to
> run . . . I'm not in the mood to bash my head against a brick wall.   Now
> I'm downloading the latest Mandrake.  (Thank God for DSL -- 790Kbps right
> now . . . )   We'll see how this goes.   At the very least I'll have a nice
> CD collection.  :-/
>
> -- Bradley Miller