Zipslack - Kernel Panic: No Init found.

[Noxious]

I've got a harddisk, win98 installed on a partition, the other partition is slackware (zipslack) in a map linux. I changed the line in linux.bat to hda1 rw
I booted in dos and got this error:

check_pseudo_root: mounted as root
VFS: Mounted root (umsdos filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

It my first time trying to install linux, i'm used to windows :-\...

[Noxious]

I have copied it to the C disk and it seems to work.

[SkyNet]

Correct. ZipSlack should be unzipped to the top level directory of the partition you wish to use. So if you have only one HDD, then the top level directory would be C:\

Note: /dev/hda refers to the entire HDD while /dev/hda1 refers to a particular partition.

[Xamindar]

Aww the good ole' days.

I remimber my very first time trying linux. I used a similar thing, I think it was "PhatLinux" or somesuch. It ran as a loop filesystem on top of my windows fat partition.