Hey, I am trying to install Slackware. Never had luck, but trying again. I was able to install Debian, but it had goofed up on me twice now and I lost a lot of data. I need something stable...that said, here is what I got.

I tried to use cfdisk and it said fatal error, so I tried fdisk, this seemed OK, but given there was a problem with cfdisk, I wondered if there was potentially wrong with my CD and would install a faulty system. So, I typed halt in to shut it down and got this msg:

I need some help, and fast, until then, I'm stuck in Windows. I have Solaris running, but don't have K3B or any other burner on it, and I have the software it takes on Windows.

Thanks!

Do you mean you need a CD burning program? If so, I've used CDBurnerXP Pro on Windows XP and it works well.

For partitioning, I like the GParted LiveCD (see my signature).

Yah, I have GParted, but I need to know if I need to download and burn new isos. I have...10.2 cds. Is the 11.0 recommended? Is there an iso compressed in the .tgz file? Also, using GParted, please post what partitions you would make for an 80 Gig HDD. I need to know explicitly what partitions to create. Being able to go in and just start setup would be very helpful.

If you wanna know if any DVD or CD media is corrupt, check the md5sum with that on the mirror.

I know that. The problem is, those CDs are already burned. The isos deleted. I'm not entirely stupid, I check the md5sums to start with. Problem is, things can happen, one of the scratches could affect the quality of it. I'm trying to download 11.0, but I don't know if I burn the .tgz file or extract it. Problem is, can Windows extract a tgz? I still need to know which partitions to make.

tgz is an abrevation for tar.gz ; those are only the individual packages (to open them in windows use e.g. winrar )
you should be able to find torrents for isos or, on some mirrors, the isos themselves.
on the other hand, although 11.0 is the latest and greatest, 10.2 should be just fine, too.

How you partition your harddrive is entirely up to you. i would not make the /slack partition any smaller than 6G, though.

you're welcome.

OK. Thank-you.

So I would need what? The following partitions?

/slack=6gb
/swap=1gb
/root=20gb
/home=whats left

so you don't want to preserve windows?

just make 1G swap ( + 100M or so if you actually have 1G ram; you might want hibernate later)

the rest just one partition ( or if you want to test other distributions, make one extra 10G partition. you don't have to mount it)

i'd format it with ext3

(hope you don't mind..)

/slack what would you put there?
swap is not mounted
/root is the home directory of the root user; no need to make it that big
you don't have a root filesystem...

Well if you had access to a Linux CLI, you could just md5sum the device. Like:

Then check that with the one on the mirror (assuming you put the disk in /dev/hdc). That's what I meant.

OK, erklaerbaer, since you have offered the most help with this as far as partitioning, how would you have it partitioned? I don't need room for another distro. I have HDDs laying around for that...

79G /
1G swap

the rest does the setup

Just wanting to verify that there are only 3 isos for Slack 11...I'm downloading #3 right now, and on the mirror did not see a 4.

Hallo,

well, there are only 3 CDs and the third one is only for the internationalizationfiles for kde. You can install the base-system (and much more) with only the first CD. If you need the sources of slackware-11, there will be CDs 4 to 6 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackwa...ware-11.0-iso/ (this is where I got slackware-11).

Markus

The 2nd CD is mostly KDE stuff, so if you prefer lightweight DE's you probably only need CD1.
Ooops, sorry, you'll need CD2 if you want the 2.6 kernel modules.

So if I set that up with GParted, I can just start setup with the Slack discs?