Q: There are so many bootdisks! Which one should I use?

A: Here's a little table to help you decide. In each box, the best choice
   will be at the top of the list. Other disks you might try if the recommended
   choice doesn't work are preceded by a (*). If you can't install directly from
   your CD-ROM, you might consider copying the disk directories onto your hard
   drive on a DOS partition and installing from there.

   -- Pat


----------------\          Target hard drive type:
Slackware        \   
source on:        \  IDE              SCSI                       MFM
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Hard Drive        | bare.i         | Use a SCSI controller    | xt.i
                   |                | bootdisk from the list   |
                   |                | below.                   |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 SCSI CD-ROM       | Use a SCSI     | Use a SCSI controller    |
                   | controller     | bootdisk from the list   |
                   | bootdisk from  | below.                   |
                   | the list below.|                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM  | bare.i         | Use a SCSI controller    |
                   |                | bootdisk from the list   |
                   |                | below.                   |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Aztech, Orchid,   | aztech.i       | old_cd.s                 |
 Okano, Wearnes,   |                |                          |
 Conrad, CyCDROM   |                |                          |
 non-IDE CD-ROM    |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Sony CDU31a,      | cdu31a.i       | old_cd.s                 |
 Sony CDU33a CD-ROM|                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Sony CDU531,      | cdu535.i       | old_cd.s                 |
 Sony CDU535 CD-ROM|                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Philips/LMS cm206 | cm206.i        | old_cd.s                 |
 CD-ROM            |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Goldstar R420     | goldstar.i     | old_cd.s                 |
 CD-ROM            |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Mitsumi non-IDE   | mcdx.i         | old_cd.s                 |
 CD-ROM            |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Optics Storage    | optics.i       | old_cd.s                 |
 8000 AT CD-ROM    |                |                          |
 ("Dolphin")       |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Sanyo CDR-H94A    | sanyo.i        | old_cd.s                 |
 CD-ROM            |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 Matsushita,       | sbpcd.i        | old_cd.s                 |
 Kotobuki,         |                |                          |
 Panasonic,        |                |                          |
 CreativeLabs      |                |                          |
 (Sound Blaster),  |                |                          |
 Longshine and     |                |                          |
 Teac non-IDE      |                |                          |
 CD-ROM            |                |                          |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------
 NFS               | bare.i with    | Bootdisk for your SCSI   |
                   | network.dsk    | controller (see list     |
                   | (in rootdsks)  | below) with the          |
                   |                | network.dsk in rootdsks. |
                   |                | scsi.s may also be tried |
                   |                | but is discouraged.      |
-------------------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------

 SCSI controller bootdisks:  3ware.s 7000fast.s acard.s advansys.s aha152x.s
      aha1542.s aha1740.s aic7xxx.s am53c974.s buslogic.s dtc3280.s eata.s
      eata_pio.s fdomain.s gdt.s ibmmca.s in2000.s initio.s
      iomega.s megaraid.s n53c4xx.s n_5380.s n_53c7xx.s n_53c8xx.s no_kbd.s
      no_pci.s no_smp.s old_cd.s pas16.s pci2000.s qlog_fas.s qlog_isp.s scsi.s
      seagate.s servraid.s sym538xx.s tekram.s trantor.s ultrastr.s usb.s

 If you have no idea which SCSI controller your machine has, you can also
 try the generic SCSI bootdisk "scsi.s".  You can determine what controller
 type you have by watching the boot messages.  Then, you should make the
 bootdisk that matches your controller and use that to install.  (Since the
 scsi.s kernel is loaded with SCSI drivers, it consumes quite a bit of memory
 that the disks designed for a single SCSI controller do not, and also 
 contains only the more popular SCSI drivers due to kernel size limits)