No questions, just a warning I may ask A LOT of questions shortly (but I promise to search thoroughly first- there's so MUCH info here).

I guess I just like trial by fire learning. I know Slackware is not generally recommended for newbies, but it was the first I downloaded, came on the board and read the warnings, but I haven't felt comfortable w/ Mandrake (locked up) or Red Hat (tools?). Ark and Amigo were OK. I guess I'm just hard-headed.

I hope to contribute someday!

Have fun, and remember ask as many questions as ya like

also at some point, this may be of some interest to you if you havnt see it on LQ already

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=174447

I disagree. Slack is a great learning tool for a newbie.

OK, the first time I installed Slack it went smooth as silk. Then as I said, I tried the others. Now I've re-installed it, and upon boot I get:

GRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUB
GRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUBGRUB

On and on. Just did a search, this seems to be a new one.

Should I have zero-filled before install? The computer I'm installing on is not connected to the internet, and I'm using the same CDs as the previous install, so what in the world could I have done? I swear I can't remember doing anything different.

I tried cfdisk and deleting partitions and got the same prob. So, I just zero-filled, am re-installing win98, and will re-install slackware. Wish me luck.

If you are even putting windows on a box, at least go with win2k, not 98

Congratulations!

I think you'll enjoy Slack, but be prepared for a learning curve, because it shields you from nothing.

And, to be perfectly honest, I always reccomend it to newbies. It's a better learning tool than Mandrake/RedHat/FC/Suse/etc...

Yep Slack is great... it's a common misconception that it's not 'appropriate' for newbies... simply because it doesn't have all the gui configuration tools... but those don't help a lot becaue if you go a different distro.. you're stuck learning another tool...slack is configured using all the text files that the gui tools modify for you... whether you think that's user-unfriendly I guess is your decision.. but I think you'll like it...

Also... I started using linux a little over a year ago.. last november... and I have tried about 20 different ditrosincluding the BSDs... my favorites? Slackware and FreeBSD, and Gentoo... I think FreeBSD is probably myt favorite... thought IT'S NOT LINUX... it's similar... but I really like the simplicity, stability, performance of Slackware and the portage system of gentoo... and FreeBSD gives me all of that... So go ahead and try all the distros you want, no one can make that decision for you... but if you do like Slack.. and I'm sure you will..go ahead and try FreeBSD some day..

and good luck!

I disagree, at least with Win 98, there is the possibility of extracting files from the fat partition into the linux partition in case the modem doesn't work under Linux.

I think I have seen this error before but I think mine said LILO. I tend to use LILO rather than GRUB (personal preference i guess). I think, and i repeat *i think* it was because I tried to put LILO on something other than the Master Boot Record.

Let us know what you did to get it working when you do. And enjoy slack when you get it up and running. Since I switched to slack, I have had no problems installing any programs, never ever crashed, never had any problems.........I love it