that did it, I reinstalled lilo in expert mode, and specified the correct drive to install it to. I am now a happy camper.

First, the Pc, Dual boot windows and salix each on a separate hdd, windows on sda (80Gb), salix on sdb (5Gb swap, 100GB / and 380Gb /home)[I game, I admit it]
P4 2.8Ghz Duo
video: nvidia 8400 pcie
monitor: Philips 22" LCD TV connected via VGA cable
OS's :Salix KDE 13.1.2 CD ISO , Salix KDE Live 13 ...

I haven't looked in on them recently but SLAX, www dot slax dot org , (If I remember correctly) was the first to support 64bit processors. I seem to remember a slax64 variant.

If printed material is important, try one of the many good magazines, I like linux journal (US) and Linux Format (UK) they both offer great info and tutorials across many distros and many experience levels. Linux Format also includes cover DVDs with ALL KINDS OF goodies for low bandwidth areas.

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I'm Drew, a long time linux user, Slackware advocate and lowly hell-desk geek. My first distro was Mandrake Linux 6(?) boxed retail edition, my first Slack was a few years later with Slackware 7. I just tried Salix-live for the first time and think I might be porting my desktop over from Sabayon 5.5 ...