Hello, all. Figured I'd post here since I can't seem to get at the VL site at the moment.

I've been using VL4 on an old HP desktop for a few months, and it's great. I've inherited an old IBM Thinkpad from my employer, and have decided to give Vector a whirl on it. It's probably not ballsy enough to do the job well, but at least it'll be fun trying.

My question is a two-parter:

1) This laptop came with a MicroSolutions Backpack CD-ROM drive that connects to the parallel port. I have a Slackware pportide boot floppy which I'm told will allow me to install VL4 from the CD-ROM drive-- but can anyone tell me if, once installed, VL4 itself will work with the drive?

2) The Slackware boot floppy works up to a point; it asks for a 'root floppy disk to be loaded into the RAMdisk." Obviously, I have no idea what I'm doing here. All I know is that I'm _supposed_ to be able to use this floppy to install from an .iso on a CD in the parallel-port CD-ROM drive. Can anyone give me some guidance on getting this rolling? Is there something I'm supposed to be giving at the boot prompt?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.


infidel