I’ve been distro shopping lately.  I had become complacent while working with PCLinuxOS because everything just works when using it.  With nothing broken, I had nothing to fix   This is a good thing, unless you want things to break every once in a while so you can learn to fix them.  I know, [...]

I always hate to send hardware off to that big chipyard in the sky. However, the PII 350 MHz PC decided to give up on me. Perhaps that is why I was getting so many errors while attempting to install various distros of Linux (including those optimized for old PCs). So, for [...]

I realized last night that I wasn’t going to get a day where I could just hammer out all of the distros I wanted to check out with my old PII 350 MHz. So, I figured I’d give STX Linux 1.0 a try. This distro comes heavily recommended for old PCs as we can see [...]

Want to Install the 2.6.13 Kernel is Slack but don’t know how? Ask and ye shall receive!
First, mount the CDROM…in my case, it is /dev/hdb
mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
or
mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Next, let’s install that Kernel! Insert Slackware Disc 2…then issue the commands below.
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486.1.tgz

Slackware 10.2 came out a few days ago and I’ve recently decided to dust off a Pentium II 350 with 524MB PC100 RAM to see how things work with it. All I can say is WOW! I have resurrected this old computer to a new life. Slackware was where I started and [...]