Hi everyone,

I am a new born baby to Slackware/Linux and was wondering if someone could give me some assistance please?

I have installed Slackware on a second HDD (SATA).
No problems with that as I am able to reboot the system which starts up into Lilo and then runs through it's thing to where it asks the following and then spits out the following:

sage login: root
Password: *******
Linux 2.4.31.
Last login: Sat etc...
You have mail.
-bash: id: command not found

-bash: fortune: command not found

-bash: id: command not found
root@sage:~#

Could this be because of the way I have set up my partitions which is as follows:
(why did I do it like this? don't know just read something similar somewhere and took it from memory again as I lost the link)
STRUCTURE:
Primary
/root
extended
/boot
/usr
/opt
/tmp
/home

So now I am unable to execute any commands i.e. startx

Thanks in advance.
Sorry if this has been asked before, did a search but couldn't find anything.

Sagecss

Did you add the partitions you created to your /etc/fstab file?

No I did not and would not know how to do that. I mean I know how to navigate to the file and have found it, but as in command to execute still THICK on this side

I also assume that I would have to do this by booting with the install cd as nothing seems to be working with bash?

Thanks for the help.

ok hold on j79zlr, I'm using a boot manager....ummmm...bootitng to be exact and I just ran fdiks again to check things out and it seems this little bastard has corrupted my partitions somehow!

Let me first sort that out again and it seems I will have to do a reinstall, then I will let you know what is happening again.

Thanks again anyway.

j79zlr, thanks mate I got it working!

It was BootitNG that was the problem. I quickly fixed the partition structure as I had created when doing the installation and tried it and all seems good. Thank you for your help though, I really appreciate it.

Sagecss

i have had that problem with a previous instlation....
the problem was caused by all pqrtitions except / failing
to mount! still a reinsall fixed it