Linuxseekers

For this review i used my Dell Inspiron 600m notebook  pentium M 1.4 GHz

with 1Ggb Ram & ati radeon graphic card.  Again, i  intentionally reduced

the ram to 256mb to create the same decompensating level which existed

when i reviewed Zenwalk 4.2 a few months ago.  In this review, i will also

share my experience with you.  You see,  I was  in dilemma on whether to

upgrade my pcs and notebook from  Zenwalk 4.2 to  Zenwalk 4.4.1  or just

convert to Xubuntu6.10, when Zenwalk 4.4.1 was released a month ago.

About sixteen seconds after i booted the default kernel boot option of Zen-

walk 4.4.1, the same screen of the Zenwalk Setup x-window interface app-

eared. Cfdisk was still the partitioning tool of choice. I hope it will be repl

-aced by gparted in the future version.  Gparted can resize ntfs partitions.

An indispensable tool for win xp  users who need to reduce the size of the

ntfs partition, in order to make room for linux.

After  i executed the first few setup options,  i reached the install option.

It took 14 minutes to install.  Then configure option was automatically pre-

sented to me. Everything was okay during the configuration until it failed

to install lilo the bootloader.  In order to solve the problem the easy way,

i re-run the configure option of the Zenwalk setup screen. Instead of instal-

ling lilo the simple way, i chose expert style, but to no avail.  In the end, i

had to do it the hard way.

The hard way to rescue my lilo; i exited from the setup screen via the Exit

option.  As result my notebook was made to re-boot, &  the Zenwalk 4.4.1

CD was re-loaded again.  This time, at boot prompt , i executed this line :-

sata root=/dev/sda3 noinitrd rw.  As a result, the freshly installed Zenwalk

4.4.1 was loaded,  and after entering the xfce desktop,  i used geany to re-

pair the lilo.conf file.  On the brighter side, i didn't experience problem in

the installation of  lilo on my Dell desktops/workstations. Also no problem

on my low-spec notebook.