Ok, I have finally gotten slack9.1 to install through a pre-mounted directory, now I'm logged in under root and would like to see some X. I need to install KDE etc...The contents of the second cd. How do I install the contents of the second cd. I have the second accessible through a fat32 partition which is mounted under /mnt/winXP. I may already have KDE installed, but my graphics arn't supported, but I'm pretty sure I need to install the second cd to get it to work. Hope someone can point me the right way.

The first disk contains X and some window managers, I believe, so you should be able to 'startx' now. If you're having problems with X, it's because the framebuffer stuff isn't working out. You need to configure X, itself and KDE won't help with that. As far as installing from the second disk's contents on the hard drive, I don't really know. I suppose you could start the setup process again and just skip what you've already done. Though actually it should have installed all in one go if you asked for KDE to begin with. Either that or 'installpkg' it all. I'm not sure of a better solution.

I'd configure as root but I'd actually do 'adduser' and see some X as a regular user.

The frame buffer is actually working, but I'm getting an error that /dev/input/mice doesn't exist so it's not letting me startx

Well, either run xf86config (or 'xf86cfg -textmode') or, better, since it's just the one thing, edit the XF86Config file directly. Change it to /dev/mouse or /dev/psaux or whatever may be appropriate. My Slack config has /dev/mouse, which is a symlink to psaux. My Gentoo has /dev/input/mice but it uses devfs.