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sure I have read some messages from TP 701 owners running Li nux. Well, I have been trying to get the A series of slackware to install for over a week now. I nolonger know what to try. First, I CAN get the LILO boot, and the ROOT disk with setup on it (I believe it is color). [I have been usiing mount root=/dev/fd0 and it seems to work OK. some of the FAQ say stuff about using thinkpad?? I get the impression this is for the 2.88 driveson the 755s??] What I CAN NOT do is get the silly setup to see my A series. I first tried a floppy install a feww times. It didn't seem to like my taking the ROOT disk out. So then I thought I would use the install from Hard drive option, cannot find sourse disks for A is the type of error I get. So I decided to mount the hard drive by hand first then install from mounted drive. I CAN mount my DOS partition, like mount /dev/hda1 /dos -t msdos. I can see it, ls and cd around on it, including seeing my directories a1,a2,a3,a4, and a5. But back in setup, I set the source, and install product A, and it prepa res to install and says cannot find soucre disks for A. And there I am. I hope some one who has done this before would either tell me what I am missing, Or just tell me what you did to get it loaded. Kevan P. Riley Vanderbilt University Medical Center BioMedical Computing Support kevan.riley@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu PS. I have tried all sorts of directory names, putt all 5 disks of file in one directory, put the a1-a5 directories under different directories, including an directory called 'a'. Why can I see them with ls -l and setup can't?? PSS. I love this group! It is nice to hear what others are doing, buying, trying, with the same equipment I have.