. . . so I am cobbling some of my Freecycle treasures and some of my spare parts into a system. I have a 333MHz Celeron with 320MB RAM (a 256MB DIMM and a 64MB DIMM), and an 6GB hard drive.
I tried to load up Slackware 12.1, and it didn't go well. I ran through the procedure of clearing off and partitioning the hard drive six times. Five times it locked up at some point in the process; the sixth time I skipped it and went straight to the installation, and it locked up there.
Clearly, something isn't happy.
I have a number of options - plugging the drive into my Windows machine and partitioning it there, or using an older version of Slackware. There's always the option of ordering a new small HD from PC Liqudiators and using that. I should mention that Slackware warns that using a large drive with too high a cylinder count may cause installation problems. Yeah, apparently it will! I could also remove the second stick of RAM, leaving 256MB, and see if somehow that RAM is the problem.
Oh well, more tinkering is required.
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