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I'm new to Linux (as least installing it) and have been trying to install the latest slackware on an old AST 486 with 8MB RAM. I booted with the bare.i floppy okay then the color.gz floppy. I did fdisk and created a 28MB Linux swap partition and the rest, approx 500MB, as a linux native partition plus I made this bootable (not sure if this is correct) - I have no dos partition now - is that okay?. I did mkswap and swapon and run setup. I attempt to install the basic A packages and it get about 3-4 screens through the installation and I get:
killed
killed
killed
etc
I notice that when I tried to run fdisk earlier it would often come up killed. I wondered if this was low memory but I thought that was the idea of the swap partition.
32M swap (type 82)
all the rest for Linux ext2 (type 83)
3) Run 'setup' directly
4) Follow the steps
If this doesn't work, try to clean CDROM, verify cables. I had to (try to) reinstall Slack 8 for 5 or 6 times, because the installation hanged, because my IDE cables are broken...
Okay great. So are you saying I can copy the A packages off the CDROM from the Linux prompt I get using the slackware floppies. If so how? Sorry I think I'm making it clear I'm newbie.
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