NEED HELP FAST!!! (slackware install)

[optech]

ok, i really need some help on this one...

i've got my boot disks all organized and i can get into the setup part, but when it asks to select the information source, it screws up... it asks for the drive then directory, and i enter them... i have the slack files on my windows D: drive, so i enter /dev/hdb1 (which is correct..) and it says "what dir?" so i tried:
d:\slackware\slakware
d:\slackware\Slakware
\slackware\slakware
\slackware\Slakware
/slackware/slakware
/slackware/Slakware
and others too...
what might my problem be?

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[Phuzon]

why are there 2 slakwares? and did you try it without a slash infront?

[mdwatts]

Does the initial install have support for vfat so to access your win partition?

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[Tigger]

Phuzon is correct.

for drive, you are correct - /dev/hdb1
for dir, Phuzon is correct - slackware/slakware

This should work.

What you can also do is mount /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/win(you may need to create the dir /mnt/win) and then select to install from a directory and then just enter /mnt/win/slackware or /mnt/win/slackware/slakware. I can't remember if this option requires the slakware dir or not but one of them will work. This is how I installed slaack 7 on an old laptop that didn't have a cdrom. I installed it from my sparq drive.

[optech]

WOW!!! didn't think i'd actually get help until tomorrow... but it's ok, i got it... i just moved /slakware to my C: and just type the dir name... yeah, i tried EVERY combination possible for it, and it wouldn't work.. but i'm in slack now (in gnome) and itworks!!!