хочу установить slack 12.1 с флоппи невозможно. есть установленная более рання версия. в раздел дос скачал установочные файлы, прочитал readme.initrd, выполнил как там прописано 3. How do I build the initrd?
The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of upgrading to the generic 2.6.24.5-smp Linux kernel using the packages found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory.
First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so this is just an example):
installpkg kernel-generic-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz installpkg mkinitrd-1.3.2-i486-2.tgz
Change into the /boot directory:
cd /boot
Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using reiserfs for my root filesystem, and since it's an IDE system the reiserfs module will be the only one I need to load:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.24.5-smp -m reiserfs
This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will create an initrd (/boot/initrd.gz) from this tree. If you wanted to, you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that.
Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 2.6.24.5-smp kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/hdb3. Note that you need the mbcache, jbd, and ext3 modules to use ext3:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.24.5-smp -m mbcache:jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/hdb3
Actually, mkinitrd is usually smart enough to figure out any "helper" modules that are needed, so this would work as well:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.24.5-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/hdb3
4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it?
Now that you've got an initrd (/boot/initrd.gz), you'll want to load it along with the kernel at boot time. If you use LILO for your boot loader you'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a line to load the initrd. Here's an example section of lilo.conf showing how this is done: image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.24.5-smp initrd = /boot/initrd.gz root = /dev/hda6 label = Lnx26245smp read-only The initrd is loaded by the "initrd = /boot/initrd.gz" line. Just add the line right below the line for the kernel image you use. Save the file, and then run LILO again ('lilo' at the command line). You'll need to run lilo every time you edit lilo.conf or rebuild the initrd. --------------- перегрузился появилось прглашение- /$ и что дальше - ни setup ни pkgtool не запускаются. И еще - создалась /boot/initrd-tree в ней есть /lib/modules/2.6.24.5 но директория оказалась незаполнена перекачал туда модули но эффект что с пустой