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Hey y'all
This is a 380XD with 98MB of ram, a 20GB hdd, 233Mhz Pentium cpu.

I just got done installing slackware with the 2.6.37.6 kernel with lilo boot manager and ext2 is my chosen file system. This is a fresh install.

When I boot up the machine I get the following output..

L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
01 01 01 .... and continues..

any thoughts? I want to breath new life in this machine.

How old is the hard drive? If it is a post-2000 5400RPM hard drive it is likely to cause problems. If you are stuck with that hard drive, try to make your partition smaller than 4GB and use FAT/FAT32 if possible as these machines' BIOS may not recognize EXT2 file system.
I had the same thing happening to my 600 for Windows 2k/XP. I have to make the system partition smaller than 8GB and then add another volume to fill the rest. Otherwise if I use the full 40GB the hard drive has for the system partition, after time it will stuck with a blinking cursor with no hdd activity and also corrupt your hard drive partitions that the system no longer boots after that but throw you an error about key file missing if you are not careful.
I would suggest you to try to fit your OS into a smaller partition and your data into another partition.

Alright.

/ should be 8192MB OR 4096MB

/home should be 8192MB OR 4096MB

/usr/local is 3900MB OR 4096MB

/swap is 196MB OR 4096MB AND KILL THE REST OF THE REMAINING SPACE?

This partition scheme should work right?