Major NOOB here!!! Need help installing
 

Hey all,

Well I have spent about 2 weeks now getting Slackware 9.0 installed and setup on my machine. Let me first say that I really like it allot and am trying to port completely over to it. Ok on to the questions.

1. I have 2 computers and would like both of them to run Slack 9.0. The first computer installed just fine and boots normally. The second one is my problem. After installing slack the same way as the first when my computer tries to boot all I see are a bunch of numbers similar to this (01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01) scrolling down the screen and then I get nothing....I have reconfigured Lilo multiple ways to no avail....the only way I can get it to boot is to use the floppy disks. Any ideas on this would be appreciated.

2. Number 2.....how do I give a new user full rights....Is that possible in slack....from what I have read so far I haven't seen anything that gives a user the same full rights as root.....and what would be the disadvantage of doing this, if there are any.

3. And my third question is a simple one.....I think.....I just got Neverwinter Nights working on my main Slack machine.....now I would like a desktop link to it in KDE 3.1......but it executes with a script file and I think it is running in konsole mode.....Tried several things but cant get it to run from desktop....only way it works is dropping to konsole and typing ./nwn....

I know I have asked allot and I have been searching through the forums and found answers to most of my question except for these....Any help is appreciated....And thanks in advance...

Oh by the way my second machine is a AMD Athlon 1.8 running a Western Digital 40gig 7200rpm Drive with a GeForce 3ti 200 and a Sound Blaster Audigy.....and it has 512 DDR memory.


Thanks again
lokis_trickster<-----NOOB!!!!! ;)

1. did you install lilo to the master boot record? this will usually solve the problem.

2. after creating the account edit /etc/passwd and change the userid and groupid fields to 0.

so instead of
username:x:512:100:blah-blah-blah
it should read
username:x:0:0:blah-blah-blah

note: this is very insecure and is not recommended... there should be only one root.

3. you can create a shortcut to something like xterm and in the shortcut specify a commandline with a '-e' option...
a command line like this:
xterm -e /home/user/nwn

this way when xterm begins running it will execute the command following the '-e' option... so you can click on a shortcut, it will execute xterm, then xterm will execute ./nwn script on your behalf.

Thanks for the quick response....In answer to the Lilo question Yes I have installed lilo to the MBR.....Still getting the same 01 01 01's scrolling on the screen....also tried the other 2 options in lilo. Not sure what is causing it...thought it might be a display problem so I tried then reinstalling and picking standard display mode but that didn't work either.

Still trying

>>and what would be the disadvantage of doing this, if there are any.

too many to list. here's one , one misplaced keystroke wipes your drive clean, fun huh? pretty high price to pay for not having to be bothered to su root to install programs.

here's a mailing list that may solve the problem. it suggests adding a 'nolinear' line to lilo.conf... give it a shot.

http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/t...5-10/0171.html