Slack 10 on a 486
 

okey, today I got an idea to install slack 10 on my prehistoric 486 compaq.
The thing is that the cdrom dossent work so I decided to install slack on it's disk on another computer. Because the old computer just have 8 mb of ram I wanted to have the lowmem.i kernel. But when I run the slack install cd the lowmem kernel is there not an option. It says that I can choose another kernel if I give the path to it. So I worte /dev/fd0. from the boot prompt. But the floppy dossent react. (maybe I worte the path wrong, im not that good).

So how could I solve this? I've tried the bare.i kernel, but it dossent work. I think it's something with the path but I dont know what to write. So please help me out.

help?
 

Anyone got some idea? Please...

OK, this might not be the best way but it should work and since there aren't any replies I hope it will help you.

/dev/fd0 is the low-level access point for the floppy. The installation script may expect a file under a mounted filesystem. Providing such a file may help.

Otherwise, If your other computer has Linux, boot to it and mount the hdd of the old PC. Copy the lowmem kernel in the /boot directory. Then configure lilo with liloconfig or directly editing /etc/lilo.conf in order to install it on the bootsector of the old disk. if you configure it to use the lowmem kernel you shouldn't have any problems.
this is the basic idea, if you are unsure about how exactly to do this or that ask again.

find lowmem.txt and read how to do it. you have to decompress the root floppy and use lowem bootdisk.
Maybe more info in an older slackware tree such as 8.1 or 7.0.

Is this 486 on your LAN? If so, just setup an NFS share sharing the Slackware installation files, create a lowmem.i bootdisk to boot the 486 with, and install Slackware across the LAN.

what about slack10's required amount of space plus its need of memory?

are you sure you want to install the current release on a 486 with 8 mbram?

8MB RAM plus 8MB swap and you should be able to run X! I have done this with Slack -course you'll probably want more than 8MB swap, but that's all it takes to RUN. It takes about 64MB RAM to install slackware unless you use install.zip which sets up a 10MB swap file for you.