Shed some light on this one, Slackware fans everywhere
After participating in a huge thread on LXer about the pros, cons, highs, lows of Slackware, ye olde Linux distribution with rabid fans and equally rabid detractors, I decided to give Slack another run myself.
This very box — a VIA C3 Samuel-based converted thin client with 256 MB of RAM — installed and ran Slackware 12.0 without complaint several months ago.
But it won't even load the installer of Slackware 12.1.
With both the hugesmp.s and huge.s kernels, I get the same error message:
Not enough memory to load specified kernel.
What gives? If 256MB isn't enough to install and run Slackware, then we've got a big, big problem.
I cranked a Slackware 12.0 install disc into the box and the huge.s kernel booted just fine (hugesmp.s wouldn't boot on this CPU).
I'll do a 12.0 installation and try to upgrade to 12.1.
But why won't 12.1 even boot the first install disc?
Any ideas?
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