[SOLVED] problem with installing slackware on my old computer
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problem with installing slackware on my old computer
hi
I have an old computer (cpu: pentium 4, Ram: 2 GB, Graphic: Intel standard VGA) in my office and I want to install slackware 14 32 bit on it, but in first screen not hugesmp.s nor huge.s kernel can not load and "not enough memory" message appears. is there any way to install slackware?
If you could let us know the exact model number of your motherboard, that would allow us to find and look at the bios manual and advise.
As for Memory 2GB is more than enough, i have installed slackware 14.1 on a Pentium M laptop with 1GB memory and it runs fine with XFCE and it flies with lxde.
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0 (started with 13.37). Testing -current in a spare partition.
Posts: 928
Rep:
Overclock? Overheat?
Just to report, my machine is probably older than yours, Sempron 2800 with 1GB ram,
and is running Slackware -current (of course at certain level of cost ).
Right after Xfce is loaded, Conky reports ~250MB used RAM.
Last edited by Paulo2; 01-20-2015 at 07:34 AM.
Reason: Correct Sempron model.
I have Slackware 14.1 installed on my aging Acer netbook. It has a 1.3 GHZ CPU and 1 GB of RAM. Slackware should run on your PC. Have you installed Slackware on another PC with your Slackware 14.1 installation DVD? If not faulty RAM then maybe the DVD wasn't burned properly.
I too have Slackware installed on many systems with less resources than OP and I submit there is value in knowing that to recognize that something is very wrong here. If it isn't with the RAM or some other hardware or BIOS setting issue, then the likely culprit is the install media. If OP didn't run checksum on the dowmloaded iso, or test the veracity of the burn he has no way of knowing if he has corruption in the media. So the first thing I would do would be to drop back a step and verify the media and possibly any hardware associated with it whether Optical or USB.
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