Hello All: Well still haven't install or even downloaded 8.0 of the slackware distribution of Linux but I have a few questions. I finally found a box I can experiment with and is a 486 Compact with 16 megs of ram. I am going to use an old which is about 6 years western digital 3.1 gig and am wondering using western's utility to kind of pre-format the disk so that cmos can read the full 3.1 gig drive should I expect any difficulty with this utility getting in the way of the Slackware and Speakup installation of Linux? Also can 1 use other distributions such as Red Hat Mandrake etc? Any help would be appreciated and if some of this is a little off topic, sorry. smile
