Mark Carey wrote: > Ok, > So I removed the SAMSUBNG HDD from the Sound Balster 16 and just left the > CDROM on that IDE channel and Slackware 8.0 will start to install but only > if I use the lowmem.i boot disk image.
Thats a good start. I can confirm that your "Killed" problem was memory- related as I have had exactly the same problem when trying to install Slackware 8.0 on an 8Mb machine. I seem to recall that my drive had already been set up with a previous Slackware 3.4 installation, so I already had swap space available. Once you get your swap set up it should go smoothly... assuming it can see the CDROM :) Whenever I install off my Slackware 8.0 CD I get a couple of errors on some packages (Perl is one) - it complains about the source file not being in gzip format, or something like that. You can ignore those but note the relevant file, and install the package(s) by hand later. I don't know why it does that; there's nothing wrong with the files. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
