Waider <waider at dspsrv.com> wrote:
>> According to William Harrison - Protocol:
> >
> > killed
> > killed
> > killed
> > etc
>> Looks like it's running out of memory. You might want to try and get hold
> of an older installation; I can probably dig up a version of redhat that
> will install on a 486 with 8MB, and I may also have a similar version of
> slackware lying around.
>> Waider.
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Try removing the hard disk from the 486 and installing Slack on another machine then reinserting the hdd.
Using this method I got slack 7.0 running on a 386 dx/sx (?) w 4 mb of ram, so it might well be worth a try.
Bod
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