I recently installed Slackware 12.1 almost without a hitch. I selected a Linux 2.6 kernel. After booting up off the Slackware disk, I ran fdisk. fdisk reported no partitions (use /dev/hda), so I set up a 4 gig swap and the rest as the primary partition as ext3 (I'm a single partition kind of guy). Use the full installation option. After the setup was complete, I installed LILO to the MBR (as per the default menu selection). Note that you will almost never want to use fdisk to partition on a Mac, this is the one exception. fdisk isn't EFI aware, but parallels sets up a virtual hda that looks like old-school to linux. Slackware used a primitive text menu driven installation tool, but installed without a hitch and in about 20 minutes. I used CDs, although a disk image probably would of worked just as well. Slackware 12.1 uses the 2.6 kernel and usually builds/installs any Linux package without issues. It's one of the oldest Linux distros around, one of the fastest, and runs just about anything without excess fat. I've been using it for years and would recommend it over the more in/hip distros that are out there. Very stable, reliable, predictable. Sound/Network/Video worked by default, glxgears reported over 5,600 fps. I haven't played around with it much yet but it seems like the default kernel/X11/mouse/keyboard/KDE worked just fine. .....--. ...|o_o| ...|:_/ | ..//...\ \ .(|.....| ) /'\_..._/`\ \__)=(__/
