I did a search here at LQ and was not able to find if Slackware 10.2 will have any problems loading on a AMD 64 3800+ CPU platform? I don't know if Slackware even offers a 64bit version and if not, will the 32bit version of 10.2 have any issues with my proc being a 64?

Also - Does Slackware not have a DVD .ISO?

Slackware will install on an AMD64 system, but it will still be a 32bit OS.

There is an unofficial 64bit port of Slackware for AMD64, Slamd64 (I use it on my laptop, and bar some teething trouble with the installer, Slamd64 is very stable and works fine for me. Obviously, YMMV, but I do still reccommend it.).

There is an unofficial DVD build of Slackware on one of the Norweigan mirrors: Slackware DVD ISO

Thanks for the Norweigan mirror. I will download that and hope I don't have any problems being that it's "un-official".

This will be my 1st time trying Slackware out so thanks!

- Carlos W.

I downloaded the DVD ISO to DVD-R and everything looks well. Now my question is since this is my only PC in the home, I can't follow a online guide while performing the install and I do recall that setting up the partitions was extremely difficult for me on 10.1. Is there something I can print out that will help me install 10.2 on my Western Digital 60GB S-ATA drive? I know I need to use the 2.6 kernel for S-ATA support but find this procedure rather hard to do.

Thanks for any help.

I have not been able to get slackware 10.2 to install on my AMD64 based computer as of yet.

as fro partitioning its pretty simple if you have a single drive...

i use cfdisk so you can see what you have on screen

i generally make 3 partitions (hold over from long time)

/boot - 40-100 mb ext2 all it does is hold the files needed fro the system to boot
swap - is stick with 2x physical ram and cap at 512mb
/ - however large you want this to be. i use ext3 as its seems to run plenty fast and is simpler to work witht han reiser

if you google cfdisk im sure you can find something along the walkthrough

but if you have a simple set up you do a "cfdisk /dev/hd?" for most any ide drive.

I have Slackware running on an amd64, so thats actually no problem.
Sata might be harder, but it works as well:

Just load sata.s kernel on boot, by entering sata.s and it should recognize the hard drives.

You can view your partitions with fdisk -l, which will show you all ide devices and hard disks, and then
use cfdisk /dev/hdx or sdx to make partitions.
cfdisk is a lot easier as you can see the existing partitions and those you have created. It is quite similar to fdisk from dos or win98.

You actually dont need an 2.6 Kernel, Kernel 2.4 also has sata support, like said you just need to load and install sata.s Kernelimage.

Good luck