Another option for you could be Virtual Box:
http://www.virtualbox.org.
There are two versions, one is open source, but doesn't support USB, one is closed source, but with a *very* liberal licence that allows even commercial use to a large extent. And the company behind it offers excellent support even for the open source version on their newsgroup, although the product and the accompanying docs are so good, meanwhile, that you probably won't need any support. Installation is a no-brainer. Highly recommended!
Not sure, if it solves your mouse pointer, though, but as it only takes about 15 to 20 minutes to read the relevant documentation, download and install it, you might want to just give it a try, before re-installing your whole system. IMHO, you should not re-install your Slackware system, if you only have problems with *WINDOWS* applications!
But in case you decide to re-install anyway, there are several ways to do it. One way:
- backup all your configuration data, usually in /etc
- backup /home (if you do the re-install correctly it shouldn't affect /home, just to be safe...)
- use slackpkg to clean your system and re-install all packages
#slackpkg clean-system
#slackpkg reinstall <package>
IMHO, the following approach should be more reliable, however:
- backup the configuration files in /etc and backup /home and all other directories that contain configuration data, that you have set manually
- printout your /etc/fstab, and write down your partitioning scheme (which drive has which name, and which partition is how big and formatted with what filesystem)
- do a fresh install using the data from the previous step
This will destroy your existing installation, but I'd prefer this method over the one above.
gargamel
