I'm trying to install Slackware 8.1 on my computer. Internet explorer was corrupted and i said screw it, im not gonna put doze back on. I've set the bios to boot from the CD-ROM then the Floppy, then finaly my IDE harddrive. No matter what, it still does not boot from the CD-ROM, even though my other computer does (I'm not allowed to install it on that one, it's my father's computer from work). I already have made a new partition on the main drive of 2.055 GB and formatted it using MS-DOS (the version it puts you in when u click "restart in dos" with Doze 95. Any help at all would be appreciated (i'm getting pretty desperate).

Also, i need to know wat the "init" boot command for linux is and wat i should enter. When i try using a boot disk it gets a decent ways into it then says something along the lines of "kernel panic, pass init= at boot prompt" or something close to that.


System Specs-

-Pentium I 233
-32MB Unknown Type (old, 72 pins)
-ATI 3D-RAGE II Video Card
-4GB IDE harddrive divided into: one 2GB Windows/DOS Partition, and one 2GB DOS Partition to install Linux onto
-Standard IDE 3.5" Floppy Diskette Drive
-Standard 32(?)x IDE CD-ROM Drive