Hi,

I have pretty new machine, amd athlon 64, nforce4 motherboard and sata drive.. pci-e radeon x600 videocard ...

Will slackware install to this machine? I will compile 2.6.x kernel but will slackware's default installer handle this? That I get network and x running?

It'll work, the hardware is all more than enough to run KDE and do all that good stuff.

Welcome to LQ!

Though I don't know about the nForce 4 chipset, nor the PCI Express, I can tell you that when you boot with CD1, at the "boot:" prompt you will need to type "sata.i" to use a SATA kernel. And then when you come to the part about selecting your kernel to install later on, I'd choose the option to get one off the CD, and insert CD1 again and be certain you have that same sata.i kernel.

And support for hardware comes from the kernel, so if you properly recompile a 2.6.15.x kernel, you will have the latest support. Slackware comes with all the tools to install kernels. Get the source from kernel.org and build somewhere under your /home directory where you have normal user privileges.

Edit: http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k...07.3/0587.html
Don't touch /usr/src/linux - leave that exactly as your distribution made it. If you don't believe me, read the link above as well as the README in the kernel source dir.

The question here is NOT the distro, it's merely the
kernel you're using. And no, to get a board with Nv4
to play nicely you'll need a 2.6.15 kernel ;}


Cheers,
Tink

Removed advice ... see you already own the box.