[Sderby] Linux on a Packard Bell Pentium 125Mhz.

Derek Huskisson derek at huskisson.free-online.co.uk
Sat Jan 31 17:11:24 GMT 2004


On Saturday 31 January 2004 16:22, Graham Hamblin wrote:
> Hiyer
>
> A Linux user for around ten years I had a teenager visit me today with a
> Packard Bell box that he wanted to install Slackware on.   Configuring
> the BIOS to boot from a CD it defaulted to A drive.   I made boot and
> image disks on my box and it booted but it went into kernel panic when
> loading the image disks, maybe the 4Mb of ram.  I tried the lowmem.i
> without success.
> Graham


I think Slackware 9.1 needs 16MB Ram according to the Install FAQ.
However there's somebody whose put 8.1 onto a system
Have a look around here.

	http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/baslinux/

								Derek Huskisson



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