welp, i decided i want to use slack. i'm running a dell inspiron 8600, nvidia geforce fx 5650, dell true mobile wireless (going to buy a linux supported card so i don't have to wrap) 15.4 inch wide aspect lcd...yadda yadda yadda...

what i wanted to know is:

a) what card should i go buy.

b) what should i look out for installing slack 10

I'm going to read up on these forums, and google and other forums and stuff but just wanted to see if anyone had some good tips that they wish they knew before they installed...i see that someone has a thread stickied about what he did to install...and thats very very helpful..props to him...so if anyone has any ideas/suggestions.... please post away...you'll all see me on here a lot asking questions and stuff when i can't figure something out. what i WANT to do is replace windows on my laptop with linux...but i need to connect to a windows server @ work and map a testserver drive...and i need good html editing software...gimp will cover me for graphics.... so what do you think... clean slack install ? or leave the dual boot for the things that windows is actually good for.

i work for the web development team @ a college inbetween classes....basically i convert html files to a cold fusion template...and i need to be able to edit like anywhere between 20-100 html files @ a time....dream weaver is a GOD for what i do....

so again any and all suggestions welcome !!!!!!! you'll be seeing a lot of me !!

-Matt...or hell just call me y0sh! everyone else does. ( aka yoshi...hero in japanese )

***edit: i'm going to reformat because something is wrong with my windows partition ( i have suse 9.1 running on here also ) and i believe i should install windows first then resize that partition...correct? because windows overwrites the mbr when it installs.***

This is easy with SAMBA. I have the server at work mount a SAMBA share on a Windows XP Pro box automatically with a simple tweak to /etc/fstab. Kinda like drive mapping in Windows.

NVU, SCREEM, Bluefish, Quanta (I think this is right?). I'm sure there are others. I use SCREEM. I've seen lots of nice screenshots for NVU. I hear a lot of people like Bluefish. One of them should work for you.

I say leave dual boot. That's what I did. I never got rid of Windows, but I built a new computer and put just Slack on it. When I first started, I would boot up Windows all the time. It got to be less and less the more I learned how to do things in Slackware. The last time I booted into Windows was two weeks ago. The only reason I did that was because I was taking my server down and thought it might be a good idea to run Windows Update so I wouldn't have so many downloads if I need to use my Windows install in the future. Other than that, I haven't had the need to run Windows in the last 8 months.

awsome...thank you..

what wireless card should i buy for my laptop ?

and i'm downloading the two iso's from www.linuxiso.org... those will suffice ? i see that on www.slackware.com they use like floppy boot disks etc....my laptop doesn't even have a floppy drive...who's does now-a-days

well i lied...i do have one in a drawr in my room...my dvd/cd burner pops out and the floppy pops in...but bah i don't wana bother.

edit: never mind slackware.com had some better ftp mirrors than linuwiso.org...one in belgum has a kick ass ul speed.

No idea. I'm too poor to own a laptop.

Yes.

They are available if you need them. You shouldn't, though. You should be able to boot from CD. The floppies are there if you can't boot from CD. The only time I used them was when I was bored and wanted to try out an NFS install on a computer with no CD drive.

hopefully tomorrow in my spare time i'll back up all my windows applications...i should rlly just go buy an external harddrive and make an image of the HD...but that costs $$. lol....one run right now and the red sox win...whee...(from boston)........and get slack installed after i re-install windows @ work. kick ass little tutorial btw...looking forward to using it.

Hope it works well for you.

gonna reformat and re-install windows xp pro asap when i get to work tomorrow ( i have a computer there i can use but my laptop is so much nicer, and i love my 1920x1200 resolution...i have good eyes, but i guess i can work on a shitty desktop for one day )

should i then resize the windows partition ? will the slack installer ask to install in the non partitioned space? or do i have to make all the seperate partitions myself ( i have partition magic, would this ease my troubles? or should i just go hardcore fdisk on it's ass )

little bit of quick thinking....backed up my current windows install on my IPOD...damn right...so i can just copy over all of the installers and iso's i have from previous backups and 80 hours later have all my software back on the windows systen. thank god for alcohol 120% and iso files....heh.

download all 4 discs @ once right now...sox game is in the 14th freakin inning !!!!!!!!!!!! gonna burn them b4 i crash tonight so when i leave work tomorrow (and my one class) i can come home and get this bad larry suited up with slack....still need to buy a wireless card...but suse picked up my network card...so i'm assuming slack will also...just a basic broadcom 10/100...i think it's just bc400 or something like that ( the driver ) so i can plug into my router until i figure out what wireless card to buy...........and oooooooooooooooooooooooo shit the redsox win...GAME 6 TOMORROW NIGHT BABY...WOOOHOOO !!!! give me something to watch while i try to get slack config, muahaha.


**slackware.com talks about fdisk...but i think he's assuming a clean install**

i'll check back in the morning... ty so much in advance, and shilo for hittin me up with responces.

You're gonna need to put Slack somewhere. If you don't have free space, you'll need to resize the Windows partition.

If you know how to use it.

cfdisk is a much nicer choice, IMHO. That's what I use.

If you already backed up the whole Windows install, just start fresh, make yor partitions, re-install Windows, then install Slackware. Use the partitioning tool of your choice.

my question as more toward......

will i have an option to tell slack to install in the unpartitioned space ?>>>> will it create it's own ideal partitions on the space i give it ?

if i install windows and then just resize the partition....i'll have 20-30 gigs for slack to just install on......or do i need to create the swap, home, usr, etc....

ahh okay....

i need to make

/
/swap
/usr
/home

swap should be 2x RAM=aka 1024

any suggestions ? i'm gonna have 20 gigs of unpartitioned space to install on.

eventually i'll get rid of windows alltogether and have 40....but thats not until i am sure slack can replace it for me.

If this is your first Linux install I would recommend you to make only a / and a /swap partition so you don't have to worry about which space give it to each one, just 1024 (you don't need that much but it won't slow you down if you give it) and the rest to /. After a while using Linux you'll realize how to distribute space according to your needs.
Good luck with your installation and i'm glad to have another Slacky user around

I agree with gbonvehi 100%. I started out with only / and swap. After awhile, the size partition should be much easier to figure out.

Here's my current partition scheme, but I have 120G with no Windows.

cool well, after i made /home and /usr i just said fuck it and used cfdisk in the setup to just / and /swap....

it's installing now so wish me luck... *<=) < party hat

fuck, i'm getting all kinds of fatal errors trying to install packages. :-\

seems that anything .tgz is erroring !!! damn it !


well even though there were a 6-10 fatal errors on the end of disc 1 and like 75% of the gnome packages on disc 2 errored...X is up and running fine ( using KDE atm )


now to figure out about those packages

Are you sure you assigned the swap and / correctly? Maybe you assigned the root partition to the space for swap and ran out of room.