Greetings......

I am trying to install Slack 9.1 on an old 486 with a 425 M HD.......I choose only the minimum packages ( from a and n )...things go okay until the install reaches "installing package devs" and then it hangs (waited 30 min)....this is just a learning machine and will not have X or anything like that...anyone hazard a guess why this is hanging and what I can do to get past this point...

I used the bare.i bootdisk

Machine info is sketchy at best but believe it or not I had grey cat linux running at one point

Thanks

Could be a memeory problem. try installing ZipSlack and then 'migrate' it to a linux partition. See www.amigolinux.org for several small Slackware-compatible distros and minimal install HOWTO's.

Thanks...

Will look into it... Can't understand why it would hang at that specific package......I will maybe try zipslack and see what happens...

The next loud crash is a 486 hitting a dumpster...
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Cheers