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I struggled with this problem for a long, long time. First off, make absolutely sure that your disk directories contain exactly the right files. I had a problem because the mirror site that I got my files from stupidly compressed *all* files, including the "maketag", "tagfile.org", etc. The slakware setup program doesn't like these files being compressed. Secondly, make absolutely sure that the files that you have are correct. I would suggest running "cksum" over the files and comparing with the CHECKSUM file that comes with the slackware distribution. For more than two days, I had this mysterious problem where I would mount an external hard disk to a linux machine, copy the alskware over to it, and then try to use this disk to install on my thinkpad. But the installation would fail in weird and sickening ways. It turned out that there was bug in the linux machine I was using. Because of some problem in the file system/ networking code in 1.1.55, the binary files that I ftp'ed over would be different from the original ones. (I checked this by ftp'ing the file to the linux machine, and then ftp'ing it back to my sparc and doing a binary diff on the file.) Hope this helps. Once I had the slakware source properly set up, everything else was a dream. --Sridhar