What Alien_Hominid said. Shilo is pretty knowledgeable on Slackware and doing a full install is good advice for someone who is new - they can always remove things when they realise they don't need them. In fact, that tends to be good advice for any distro. Install the whole thing and as and when you learn enough you can start to whittle away your install.

"Do a full install is the only way to have a poor Slackware installation!!!"
Don't you think you're a bit ridiculous?

//Moderator.note: like Chinaman and other people already said. Don't feed the trolls. So please stop commenting on biello's trollage. He's been slagged off properly by now I'd say.

Thanks Shilo for the great howto, its clear and easy to understand, have looked up your website too, will read more of that when I get time.
Keep up the good work.

Pete

i think this was asked and answered but i cant send email to my web based email both yahoo and gmail. but i can send and receive emails locally. post #15 states something about opening ports. which i dont know how to do. please guide me to the right direction. i have signed up on dyndns.org

Yes tnx indeed. I am a newbie, but it helped me very much. BUT......I obviously did something wrong somewhere at the road. Everything went fine, until I messed with that /boot/*.64 shit, or, with the part where you have to remove software.
first I could not get a terminal to start, or other apps. rebooted, but now it hangs during the fase that one should see the dropline Gnome image. Anyone has any ideas how to dela with this mess?

furthermore I tried to do that clean thing, the one with .new replacing files. Ho do you remove and rename these files?

tnx guys!

Rerun dropline-installer.

I know the problem... installed Slackpkg, updated, and everything messed up. no problem, just reinstalled slack..... keeps me busy

My suggestion: install Slackware 10.2, run dropline-installer, install-full. If you want current, use any of these package managers (swaret, slackpkg, slapt-get), but blacklist kernel packages, alsa, aaa_libs and maybe if you want X11.

tnx guys,
my little brother went to help me... He just installed the xgl desktop (3D) wow!! that is awsum!! he wil post how he did that in time.

can I do the upgrade online ???

What do you mean online? Do you mean using swaret? Which version do you want to upgrade to?
BTW, you better read this: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar....2/UPGRADE.TXT

What I ment is, can I upgrade my system online ? I have a fast internet connection, can I just do the upgrade online by connecting to some site ? Hope u understand me !!!

yes, you can do with with tools like swaret...

I have aquestion in layout options : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=434632

my problem is how to edit /etc/X11/xkdb/sympols/ar to add alt+shift layout support
and also how to do this in //etc/X11/xkdb/rules/xorg in the section $nonlatin