during the installation of slack 9.1 i was asked to choose which kernel has to be used among a quite wide range. i really don't have any idea about what is best or best fitting to my system. help please

Depends on what kind of 'special hardware' you have.
Most standard computers work fine whit the bare.i kernel, but it would help if you tell us something about your computer.

i'm installing on a old laptop fujitzu-siemens lifebook-c series. hd 20gb, ram 64mb (sigh!!!), internal modem lucent. is it enough? what others info do you need?
tanks

Then I think the bare.i kernel will do. But you might also try bareacpi.i (thisone contains ACPI support, mostly used for laptops)

btw,you can see a complete list whit of the kernels whit description on the slackware-CD in bootdisks/README.TXT

in addition i can say i'll like to connect my laptop with usb memory key and a digital camera

no problem, should work..

I know atleast that a memory-key shouldn't be any problem at all. I use them all the time
don't know about camera's, but i assume the are mounted just like memory-keys..

ok i'll try.
at the moment i have installed bare.i
how can i switch to bareacpi.i? should i re-install slack from the beginning?

run 'pkgtool' as root. Then under Setup, chose 'install kernel from bootdisk'.
there you can chose another kernel from the slackware CD.

i tried but with no results.
i run pkgtool but when i select setup/install kernel it spit me out the the first screen whitout making any change. the same appens when i tried to change the window manager.

I just found out that the pkgtool kernel option doesn't work here either, but all other options do. Dunno why

anyways, what you could to install the bareacpi kernel is copy the files from the slackware CD (in /kernels/bareacpi.i/) to /boot.

When You do this, extract the file System.map.gz to /boot/System.map-acpi,
and copy the file bzimage to /boot/bzImage-acpi.
(dont just copy the files from the cd to /boot. Thatway you will overwrite your old kernel!)

Then edit /etc/lilo.conf
add something like this:

change the root line to your root-disk!
after that run lilo to add the changes.

-->I'm kinda doing this from the top of my head.. SO be warned.

to use pkgtool, you must do a 'cd' to the proper directory where the files you want to install are located and then run pkgtool

Kristian