Sorry, I'm obviously getting blind: Installer and installee.

The "Install help" just seems weird against the "Get Slack" on the Slackware page.

You don't need a root or boot disk, that info is outdated. Just download the 32 bit DVD, burn it and use it to install Slackware.

TobiSGD beat me to it once more, but specifically...

Then reboot at the prompt!

I'm in the middle of burning Salix-CD for trying out.

I'm also in the think wiki as "turboscrew" already.

Am I seeing things...
I tried zegeniestudios distro selector and got:
1) Fedora - 100% match
2) OpenSUSE - 100% match
3) PCLinuxOS - 95% match: Your computer may be too slow
4) Debian - 95% match: Your computer may be too slow

I've been in the belief that Fedora is not very light distro?

Not knowing what criteria you entered or the zegeniestudios selection algorithm, it is not possible for anyone else to relate the meaning of "light" to the results.

But I would certainly not consider Fedora to be a light distro.

Where can I find Salix Live 32-bit image?
Only via torrent?
I found one, but it didn't boot: "prefix not set".
Everywhere else I only find Salix Live ISO image (different releases), but no indication if it's x86 or x86_64.

I also saw somewhere that Slackware live CD exists. Just didn't find the image anywhere.

Also from Fedora I found "Fedora-Live-Desktop_i686-20-1.iso"
Couldn't select DE and the only i686 live image I could download, didn't have any indication about DE.

Is this some new fad?
"Here is a live CD image ... just kidding!"

The point is: Fedora was OK, but for Debian a machine could be too slow?
I would have thought the other way around.

I don't know anything useful about Salix, a quick search turned up a few Salix live discs but they were all from third-parties and looked older to me.

There have been discussions on Slackware live disc/usb from time to time, here is a recent one with a few links and a lot of info.

Unless you really want to preserve the hard disk in that laptop, I'd suggest just installing instead of a live disc - you can always wipe it and start over with another one (and a few installs may be a valuable refresher course anyway!). I think one reason for the move away from live discs is just the size of the base system vs installed RAM and the speed of running everything from a slow drive... often not impressive.

AH! I see now what you meant... maybe ask zegeniestudios what their results are based on... who knows?! I never take those things very seriously any way.

Should slackware accept "forcepae" boot parameter?
To me it complains about pae not supported.
(Most Pentium M processors support PAE, but not the pae-flag.)

I tried OpenSUSE, and that's the last distro I'd use.
Heavy as H***. Live-DVD booting took more than 20 minutes.

My T23 with 1.2 GHZ and 1 gig of ram is the testing laptop for AntiX team. It runs just fine and fast on it.
No special tweaking required. No hoop jumping. I test new scripts for the developers. I have not broke my install yet.

I think that if you use the huge.s kernel instead of the huge-smp.s, it avoids the problem during install.

Then After install (i.e. booting) I don't think it is a problem unless you have more than 4GB of RAM.

My Pentium M has the pae flag so I have never run into that particular speed bump**, although I have seen a number of posts here on the subject.

After install, the current kernel should accept the forcepae option at boot if needed (it is a kernel param, not distro specific). I think that you might bump into it again with VMs, here is a post about that which might be helpful in general.

I haven't used OpenSUSE but agree about live DVDs generally... very slow performance, but not always indicative of the installed versions - one reason I generally avoid them as demos.

(** I have installed to other older machines without PAE and simply use the huge.s, i.e. non-smp kernels. Otherwise they are the same)

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Tried it and it runs fine, and so does Vector.
I just wanted to try Slackware first time in my life (Used Linux since about 1995).
Some frigging guys sold me Slackware here. ;-)

Thanks, it worked. Funny that in the "F2-list" it wasn't shown.Mine doesn't, even if it's Dothan (6,13,6), Also Mint 17 works with 'forcepae'.Mint 17 Cinnamon wasn't nearly that heavy - X just didn't work right.
And THAT OpenSUSE the zegeniestudios suggested with the warning that for Debian the machine might be too slow!