Slackware Root disk creation

[DCLeonard]

I've set up a boot diskette and it actually works! Following the instructions on Slackware.com under installation help for setting up the root diskette it says to "create the root disk the same way as the floppy . . . just pick an image and dump it onto a floppy." The root image is zipped and in all forms seems to be too big for a floppy. When I try to use the rawrite.exe file, it tells me that my diskette is bad.

Help!

[quietguy47]

I'm probably wrong when I say this but if it's bz2, it's definately to large for floppy.

[DCLeonard]

The site recommends one of three root disk images:
color.gz
text.gz
umsdos.gz

I am trying to work with color.gz.

It's designed to create a root diskette, so I'm sure the problem is my own misunderstanding. Somewhere.

Any ideas?

[theevilsithlord]

I am having the same problem with Slackware root disk creation and color.gz . I have XP pro and used rawritexp but it just tells me after a while that "the parameter is incorrect." When i use rawrite on dos, it ends with "number of bad sectors: 1" and the disk doesnt work. I have looked on the Slackware site and none of the FTP's have the so called text.gz. O, and the funny thing is: I have a cd-rom drive in the computer i'm installing slackware on, but when it goes to boot the cd-rom, syslinux starts and then i get an error message "no cdrom devices found" when its reading from a cdrom in the first place. Weird.