Hello everyone. I am a newbie in computers. yesterday I tried to install slackware onto my computer I didn't know what to do where I got to the point where is said using the cfdisk. well i went through it and did some partions like sda1 boot primary linux. sda2 primary linux. sda5 logig swap files. the computer gave me this automatically. and then finish the installation but errors came up when I boot up like Missing grub. I dont what I am doing...any help will be gladly apprectiated thank you. my hard drive is 750.1 GB....this is the only operating system is going to be in my computer.I am installing from a dvd and now I have it on a usb. the issue here is that I dont know how to partion.....my harddisk is empty....

Hey openation1,
What exactly are you using to install Slackware? Are there any other OS's (ex. Windows XP or 7) that are going to be on your computer?

no this is the only operating system is going to be in my computer.I am installing from a dvd and now I have it on a usb. the issue here is that I dont know how to partion.....my harddisk is empty....

Alright, Run 'fdisk -l', you should see some info about your hd, looks like "/dev/hda" or "/dev/sda" something along those lines. That's your hard drive, if you have more than one make sure you know which one you want to work with. Secondly run 'fdisk /dev/xxx' then you can start manipulating the hd. Also check out 'man fdisk', it should help, 'q' will exit.

If you are really, really new to it, cfdisk may be easier to use. Just run cfdisk /dev/sdX (X being the correct disk).