Tks to you 01 micko. Followed your advice above, with these hints for noob like me: 1. clicked the download, accepted the offer to use petget to handle. 2. ran "depmod" with no args 3. rebooted and checked pupscan interfaces and voila, two relevant AIC-7xxx drivers loaded. I checked /root/...

Slacko 5.3.3-4g SCSI full , fresh install (no pets) on.... Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ @ 2Ghz Memory 967MB (94MB used). ....is not auto loading module for AIC-7850 according to pupscan: DESCRIPTION: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7850 VENDOR: 9004 DEVICE: 5078 sg not loaded eit...

Slacko 5.3.3-4g SCSI full , fresh install (no pets) on.... Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Memory 967MB (94MB used). ....is not auto loading module for AIC-7850 according to pupscan: DESCRIPTION: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7850 VENDOR: 9004 DEVICE: 5078 sg not loaded either per...

>>>>>> EDIT 12-9-09: had two problems here, but most important was RAM. Added 64M sodimm and now 2.14R (thanx, ttuuxxx!) and meanpup (2.12 Opera) boot just fine. According to the ram meter in meanpup, i was just a few MB shy of having enough. I have not tried 4.3.1 per advice below. all working exce...

Thanks. Can't believe I went to the distro page and didn't see the SCSI iso before.

I agree with the last post: like Ubuntu and variants - which IMHO have lots of somewhat contradictory information, due to it not being updated in a timely fashion -the challenge here is how to get at the basic info I want in the shortest time. Don't mind combing forums for hints, but a release note ...

Overall I have to give the install high marks. Got the iso, burned a CD and booted on an old K6 233 Mhz 256M RAM clone in about half an hour. I had a head start from experience doing same with Ubuntu/Xubuntu. As a mostly windows guy with some Sun Sparc end user experience, I have suggestions for hel...