I want to install Slackware 9.1 on an old computer that has been collecting dust in my closet. My problem is that I don't have a floppy drive, and the Slack 9.1 cd does not boot properly from the CD.

I wanted to install Slackware. I downloaded, checked md5, burned to CD, and rebooted. Selected media, selected target partition, selected a full install, and then told it to go ahead and install.

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If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...