Funny you should ask...... (Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation. Just catching up on old emails.) One of the books I took with me on vacation was "Installing and Configuring Slackware Linux". This book is 5 years old and refers to version 7, but still should be applicable to the latest version. As I briefly saw someone else mention, have you tried the floppy drive install? If I remember correctly you will need around 30 floppies. I could help you out with any version from v7.1 on up, I have all of them sitting on my Linux server. Todd Chris Schumann wrote: > OK, I've got a very old laptop. 33MHz 486, no CD drive. I want to run Linux > on it. > > I tried Gentoo, and got pretty far, but when I tried to build a kernel, > well... there are a couple bugs in the source for building for a 486 with > nopci and isapnp. I tried using their generic kernel genkernel, but that > panicked on boot. So I've kind of given up on that distro. > > I'm trying a Slackware install over a network. I get NFS apparently working, > but once it actually starts to install that first package (aaa_base?) it > hangs. Then it says it's waiting for the NFS server. (That server is a > 900MHz Athlon running Fedora Core 3 and NFS.) > > I think my next step is to try a hard disk install. Nanobox Linux just > reboots over and over. > > Slackware bare+root only has wget and NFS. No ftp, no smb, so doing any kind > of recursive copy is out... and NFS doesn't seem to work too well. > > Any tips or pointers would be great, as I'd really like to use this thing as > a print server if nothing else. Getting X and sound to work would be just > too cool, but probably too much effort. > > Many thanks, > Chris Schumann > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Todd Young -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005