Robby Workman wrote:
>
> /usr is going to be a larger partition, and both /usr and /opt hold the
> same type stuff, so there's not generally a good reason to have both.

On a fresh install, /opt is completely empty. I've been keeping it as
a separate partition, as I said, because I found other uses for it....

- Kurt

On 2008-05-02, ~kurt wrote:
> Robby Workman wrote:
>>
>> /usr is going to be a larger partition, and both /usr and /opt hold the
>> same type stuff, so there's not generally a good reason to have both.
>
> On a fresh install, /opt is completely empty. I've been keeping it as
> a separate partition, as I said, because I found other uses for it....


So there's at least one good reason

-RW

>
> My guess would be not enough RAM. Somehow I think I remember newer
> versions of Slack requiring 64Mb, but not certain.
>

I think that was the issue. I managed to add some RAM to 98MB and
installed again, this with X. Runs fine now.
Thank you for helping out.

Thank you all for helping me out. Added some more RAM to 98MB,
repartitioned (now with swap = 256MB, keeping the rest about the same)
and got Slack 12 installed fine.