....That CPU is one of the very few cases that the non-smp kernel is actually needed....

Thanks for the details that explain why I couldn't get other distros to work on this hardware. With luck, I've learned something useful, as long as it comes to mind next time I need it, which it should now ...

Are you sure? What cpu do you have?

Geode LX 800. I'm not sure, most of the time I don't know what I'm doing; I use seance engineering and just do what works; with me it's all moonbeams and crystals. hugesmp.s installed, but X11 wouldn't run properly, giving an incorrect resolution. Modern X11 ...

I got Slackware 13.37 installed on my FitPC1.0, and found it a bit of a sweat to configure. In the latest issue of Linux Format Mag I noticed a reference to SalixOS, so I downloaded the LXDE version and got it going without a hitch after realising that I needed to boot huge.s instead of hugesmp.s ...