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Originally posted by fade2black06
but when i log in it says crap about me being logged in as root
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You're probably just getting the usual warning abouts 'doing things are root can trash your system'.
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Originally posted by fade2black06
i have none of my drivers installed and i dont know how 2 mount my cd and floppy drives i dont know any commands
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If you answered the question about where your CD-ROM is at installation then you should be able to do something along the lines of
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mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
to mount your CD-ROM under the /cdrom directory, you then just access your files by going to the /cdrom directory.
Its a similar effort for your floppy, you use
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mount /dev/fd0 /someDir
where someDir is a directory of your choice. On my systems I have created a /floppy directory but I can't really remember it thats there by default on Slackware, I think it may well be.
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Originally posted by fade2black06
im pretty much in the dark
i cant get online cuz i dunno how 2 setup my cable modem
ive got a router connected 2 another computer 4 my internet access
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It sounds like you will need to configure your network card first, then your inet connection. How does your router give IP addresses to your other machines? Via DHCP?? What type of network card you using?
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Originally posted by fade2black06
well if any 1 knows somthing that'll help me get goin
please lemme know
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The best things you can do is decide which thing you want to sort out next and post specific questions about what you're trying to do. Have a read of any relevant documents on
http://www.linuxdoc.org for a good starting point.
As for 'drivers' - the linux equivilent of installing drivers is to either load a module (if its present) or recompile your kernel to add support for the piece of hardware/to create the needed module. There a good howto on this one. I feel I should comment that you've chosen on of the least newbie-friendly distros you could of to start with! Slackware doesn't really do anything for you, but it means you'll learn a lot and you'll learn it fast if you want to get stuff up and running.
HTH
Jamie...