[NTLUG:Discuss] Breathing life into a really ancient laptop.

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Steve Baker wrote:
...
> However, during the boot process, it asks you to enter a swap-space
> size and claims it's going to create it in a file called:
> 
>     C:\LINUX\DEV\SWAPSPACE
> 
> - which it seems to do because it's visible from DOS.  The problem
> is that as it does that, it outputs a bunch of error messages that
> scroll past too fast to read, and I can't find any kind of log file
> where they might have been recorded.
> 
> I do get a login: prompt and can log in as root - but when I try to
> do the next step and run fdisk, I get bunches of nasty errors and a
> crash back to the shell prompt.
> 
> Does anyone remember Slakware'96 well enough to have a clue what
> might be going wrong...or at least where to find some kind of error
> log?
...

Been a long time since I've used Slack, but a lot of the distros tend to write 
log type stuff to the other virtual terminals.  Try Alt-F2 thru Alt-F6 and see 
if you find anything useful.  Suse seems to like 3 & 4, I think RH liked 3 
last time I did it.

HTH,
Kevin