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Hm. Have you read the Slack book? Like I say, it may be a bit out of date, but still has some useful basics. You could just download it from the Slack site but if you've got your CD, pop it in and, depending on how it's set up, you'll probably have to be root at this point. 'mount /mnt/cdrom' should suffice if it's in your fstab, but 'mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' will do if not. (Substitute your actual device if it's not hdc.) If absolutely necessary, a '-t iso9660' maybe. 'man mount' for full details. And I'm just assuming /mnt/cdrom exists. It may be called something else or you may have to 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom'.
Long story short, you should have a /mnt/cdrom and your device is probably hdc and Slack and you probably set it up on install, so 'mount /mnt/cdrom' should do.
OK, I figured it out on my own but I still have problems
I seem to have the repeated error of:
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No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not corectly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org
what should I do?
And, when I try to run mozilla, I get:
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/usr/lib/mozilla1.7/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 5135 segment fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
This shows you in which packages the files are located. Now you can directly download the files
from a listed server or install it from folder /l on your slackware cd (as shown).
Perhaps there is any easier way? I would be glad to learn something that's faster.
I'm also a newbie...
I think slackware is good for learning "basic" linux... but it's hard to get in...
I'm using SuSE for my "modern" PC and slackware on a pentium 233 mmx, running quiet nice.
OK, I figured out why IceWM would not install. My computer seems to have trubble with .tar.gz files. When I try to install .tar.gz files, I get this error:
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File does not end in .tgz
When I installed IceWM, I had to rename it to .tgz. I thought this worked, because it in in /var/log/packages/.
I thought linux accepted .tat.gz files, too.
A tar.gz is generally a tarball of source code which has to be compiled. Sounds like you downloaded the Ice source, so you need to do the ./configure/make/su/make install routine, and I'd advise installing checkinstall from /extra and changing that to ./configure/make/su/checkinstall. A tgz is generally a slackware package - a precompiled binary. Only those can be installed with installpkg. Well, and you can sometimes get an rpm, run rpm2tgz on it, and then installpkg that.
So compile the ice you downloaded or see if Linuxpackages or somebody has a slackpack.
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Have you read the Slack book? Like I say, it may be a bit out of date, but still has some useful basics. You could just download it from the Slack site but if you've got your CD, pop it in and, depending on how it's set up, you'll probably have to be root at this point. 'mount /mnt/cdrom' should suffice if it's in your fstab, but 'mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' will do if not. (Substitute your actual device if it's not hdc.) If absolutely necessary, a '-t iso9660' maybe. 'man mount' for full details. And I'm just assuming /mnt/cdrom exists. It may be called something else or you may have to 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom'.
but I still have problems 
