From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:37:42 +0000, ewtrdfsga wrote:   
   > in the interest of putting slackware on older hardware, what would be   
   > the minimal packages in to install for having a basic slackware system?   
      
   As a beginner, when I installed Slackware for the first time many years   
   ago I did try to choose only the packages I would need and carefully   
   answer the question for each package during the installation process of   
   Slackware 3.0. One of those packages I got a question about was groff,   
   described as some kind of text formatting utility. I thought I would not   
   need that and ended up with a system without working man-pages.   
      
   Since then I have allways made full installs of Slackware.   
      
   Do you by "older hardware" mean really tiny hard drive? Or do you mean 32-   
   bit processor? If so, you will need to do a 32 bit Slackware installation   
   instead of the 64-bit most people use nowadays. Maybe you even mean and   
   old CPU like 386, 486 or Pentium? If so you will not be able to use any   
   newer and maintained version of Slackware but find an old unmaintained   
   version which matches your system.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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