Slackware installation on older machines
When I bought all of this equipment included in it was a server, P3 866mhz, 512mb PC133 ECC, 3×18gb Ultra160 SCSI drives in Raid 5. I was unable to get Slackware to boot from the install disc and I was beating my head against the wall trying to get it to work. I tried CentOS 5, but the video card seems to be incompatible with Anaconda and if I am going to do a text install it is going to be Slackware. I tried boot disks and kept getting errors and prompts to put in floppy disks. After no luck online I looked at the DVD and saw the rootdisks folder and installed the sbootmgr.dsk image on a floppy. That boot disk will allow you to boot from any disc even if the bios won’t allow it or fails to boot for one reason or another. It worked and I am installing Slackware 11 right now.
