hi..
Im a newbie here in slack and i dont know how this some packages works and what will i need. Maybe in gui i can understand where i go and so on. How is it? and its steps? please i beg all of you. thanks to those who replied.

I assume you've just installed slack and want to get off the console. Well first of all, I hope you installed KDE, Xfce or some other desktop environment and selected it during the setup. If so, all you have to do is run xorgconfig and configure your display. You should find your monitor specs first, mostly vertical and horizontal refresh rate I think. After the setup is complete, just run startx as user (xorgconfig had to be done as root I think). Then you should be in the GUI. If you want the computer to automatically go to GUI whenever you boot, change a line in /etc/inittab:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

becomes

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

Best of luck.

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you chose a distro which can be installed only via text mode
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware

i suggest that you try another distro that can be installed with a graphical interface and you will find alot
of course unless you specifically want slackware then i don't think i can help you much

Well, installing Slack is actually pretty damn straightforward. If you have problem with the install not post-install then just tell us what's wrong and we'll get you through it. As for packages you can safely do a full install the first time round. You can always easily remove the packages later that you don't use.

i love this forum... thanks for replying.. i hope i can make it. thanks again.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Slackware forum and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Slackware rocks. You will learn a lot.

whats is the real meaning of distro/distribution? i dont get it. Maybe i can ask examples on it from you so i can share my distro's. please... so that i cn solve my problems..

byda way im using a vm ware5.0 is it posible to detect it? i cannot mount it so please reply. i tried the cfdisk nd fstab -l and the result is only the linux and the swap found.



in dual booting if i tpe cfdisk and fstab -l only the ntfs partitions and the linux& swap found. The distro is Slackware version 11.

A distribution is an Operating System (OS); this can either be Windows, Linux(Slackware) or something else. In the world of Unix-like operating systems a distribution consists of the Linux kernel and the non-kernel parts of the operating system. The souls of you’re distribution. This is again `sugar-coated` with other assorted software.
I do agree with `Linux.tar.gz.` but if slackware is the first distribution you try you might stumble on some `problems`. Although there are easier `out of the box` distributions out there don’t get discouraged, as `kummiliin` said, this is the right place for help.
If you want examples I suggest www.distrowatch.com. Here you can find information and download all top-distro`s including Slackware. A little distro-hopping doesn’t hurt anyone.


Cheers

You might also try

#xorgsetup

That command will automatically set-up your display settings for you if you're finding #xorgconfig daunting.