installation not consistant
Ok, I tried for the 5th time to install slackware and no go. first time, I just realised it would take bloody ages because it kept asking for every single package, second time it did not want to boot off the second floppy, would just say something about crt error and blab on some weird codes like windows tends to do on BSODs, 3rd time it worked, but after 11 hours it decided to start crapping out and say that packages are corrupted, forth time it did not want to boot off the second floppy again, 5th time same thing. Now I quit.
Why is it not consistant? Why is it that sometimes it boots, and some other times it does not? All I want is the linux OS installed on that 486, I don't care what distro as long as it works with ISA network cards - I just want linux on it so I can download apache and stuff and play around with servers. But the installers are so bloody hard for nothing and want to install all this bloatware with it. I don't need 20 different mp3 players on a computer that does not have a sound card!
Is there an easier way to do this?
Last edited by Red Squirrel; 12-14-2003 at 01:12 PM.
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