You could try other cable for SATA connection. Maybe a weak battery on mainboard.

Thank you very much Spiff for the links although I already knew them

Yes, I agree and I like it very much so far.

I'm not an expert in Linux but could handle most things my own. Salix seems a bit harder to me. Less documentation and all in english which is not my native language. But I will go for it. Good things take time...

Hi again,

first of all thank you for the warm welcome. Be sure I will ask when in trouble. But before I will try by myself. The learning effect is imho much higher.

Today I swept away the old and nearly dead OS from my main machine by installing Salix XFCE.

After installation was finished I tried ...

Hi there,

I am new in the forum and a bloody newbie in the world of Slackware and Salix. After few years of distro-hopping I got caught by Manjaros OpenRC for the last 4 years. It was the most perfect OS I ever used. But now its no longer alive. Hence I was searching for a new Distro which fit my ...