Hello all,

I am a windows user who is fed up with using 'appropriated' software so I've
decided to go open source. My friends tell me that Slackware is the way to
go so I want to test it on an older machine of mine.

The floppy drive doesn't work, so I have to make it go using the
instructions on the Slackware site (installation FAQ #11). However, after
following these instructions, I get the message "Uncompressing Linux... Ok,
booting the kernel." and then it hangs...

The command used in the dos prompt was:

C:\LOADLIN\loadlin bzimage rw root=/dev/ram initrd=color.gz load_ramdisk=1

Not knowing what the root and load_ramdisk switches do makes me think that
the problem may lie there.

Any thoughts?

If I have left anything out, or if this is a common problem and I've simply
not looked hard enough for an answer, please advise and point me in the
right direction.

Thanks, all.