I have tried to install Slackware 12 on my old PC (now it is running
Windows 2000 Pro) but in vain. Just at the beginning, it hangs
infinetely, even if I put "huge.s" for the kernel.
How to get it going on?
Thanks!

jk

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Jilani KHALDI
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:24:53 +0200, Jilani KHALDI
<j.khaldi@oltrelinux.com> wrote:

>I have tried to install Slackware 12 on my old PC (now it is running
>Windows 2000 Pro) but in vain. Just at the beginning, it hangs
>infinetely, even if I put "huge.s" for the kernel.
I can see:
Loading /kernels/huge.s/bzImage.......
and nothing more.

jk


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http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com

On Aug 31, 2:30 am, Jilani KHALDI <j.kha...@oltrelinux.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:24:53 +0200, Jilani KHALDI
>
> <j.kha...@oltrelinux.com> wrote:
> >I have tried to install Slackware 12 on my old PC (now it is running
> >Windows 2000 Pro) but in vain. Just at the beginning, it hangs
> >infinetely, even if I put "huge.s" for the kernel.
>
> I can see:
> Loading /kernels/huge.s/bzImage.......
> and nothing more.
>
> jk
>
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> Jilani KHALDIhttp://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com

How about trying to boot a different kernel? Seems only logical that
this would be the next step; there are a couple other kernels beside
huge.s.



Mike

How about posting hardware info....
disk controller, video, cpu type, ram.

Have you run the checksum on the disk?
for fastest test use the cdrom disk 1, and try booting it.
I have one machine that will not boot the dvd disk, installs from
it fine, but needs to boot from cdrom to see the dvd. Seems to be a bios
issue.
Robert

Jilani KHALDI wrote:

> I have tried to install Slackware 12 on my old PC (now it is running
> Windows 2000 Pro) but in vain. Just at the beginning, it hangs
> infinetely, even if I put "huge.s" for the kernel.

I recently installed Slackware-12.0 on an old IBM Thinkpad (1998 old).
The 12.0 CD wouldn't boot on that system, apparently because of an
incompatibility with the newer version of IsoLinux. Instead, I booted
the Slackware-11.0 CD, then switched the disk to the Slackware-12.0 disk,
so although I had 11's "setup" program running, it still installed the
newer distribution. I've also done this in the past with previous
versions of Slackware and even older systems ...

It took a fair bit of effort to get a reasonably complete installation
without running out of disk space, but I got it done, and am intending
to get it fully configured in the next short while.

I hope you find that helpful ...

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
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