[Scottish] zipslack and lilo

[Joste Bowen]

> Go find 'Puppy' linux. It specifically designed with old boxes in mind
> (will work in 32Mb, but a bit more comfortable in 128) and does some cool
> stuff with unionfs to minimise writes to disk (thus preserving battery
> life). IIRC there are boot floppy images for it which work in conjunction
> with the USB/CD image.
>
> I've only fired it up twice on my (1GHz, 384Mb) laptop where it was
> amazingly fast running with the entire image (96Mb inc XWindows, Abi Word,
> Gnumeric and Mozilla) in the ram disk layer of the filesystem.
>
> HTH
>
> C.
>
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I run Puppy very successfully on a laptop with a celeron 333 and 64mb ram from 
a live cd, it can slow down a fair bit if the swap kicks in but is still 
usable.  I realise you really want Slackware but thought my experience of 
Puppy may be useful.

Joste