thanks.
i'm kind of pissed at slackware now tho, on the readme they referred to it, on websites they referred to it, but when i burned the iso image, the bootdisk/rootdisk directory isn't even on the disk,. and actually spent an hour looking through individual crap. Managed to get the files i needed off the website from the non-iso download version.
i'm probably going to wait till new suse come out now.