A new install of SlackWare 9.1 went OK

so the screen showed:

darkstar login: <root>
password: <SlackWare>
root@darkstar#:

Now what do I enter?



Thanks for any help

You enter 'adduser' (without the apostrophes, of course) and set up a regular user account to avoid being logged in as root. After that you log out (using the 'logout' command) and log in as your new user. Then you 'su' (gain super user privileges; first 'su', then enter your root password, which I hope isn't 'SlackWare' ) and run 'xf86config' (since you're using 9.1; in 10.0, use 'xorgconfig') in order to set up X. When that's done, drop the super user privileges ('exit') and fire up X (assuming you want to get graphical ) by the command 'startx'. If you want to switch window manager, use 'xwmconfig'.

At this point you'll probably want to tweak some things, but I definitely recommend you to set up a decent firewall first (that is, a set of IPTables rules). You could use a frontend (such as Guarddog, Firestarter, or similar), a ruleset template, or you could write your own ruleset from scratch. IPTables is part of the Linux kernel, so all you have to worry about is how to create your ruleset. Both Guarddog and Firestarter can be found as Slackware packages at Linuxpackages, in case you don't want to compile them yourself.

When that's done, you can take it easy and get comfortable with Linux. Check out Simply Linux for some general configuration tips...and if you have any questions, use the search button.

Congrats on the successful Slack install and Welcome to LQ. As nvn nicely desciribed, the first step is to set up a regular user account and use it as your default rather than root. After that you can fire up X by entering "startx" (no quotes) and you may also need to spend some time configuring your other devices, such as your NIC or soundcard. Note that it's possible also that the default installation will recognize them correctly, so this may not need to be done.

Overall though, as far as your question of "What's next?" the answer is: "Whatever you want to do." Enjoy -- J.W.

Thank you both for your swift and helpful replies.

I am most grateful.

Thus begins a new adventure!

Slack on!

Ed Hoff

More Slack: www.subgenius.com

nvn wrote:
...."Then you 'su' (gain super user privileges; first 'su', then enter your root password, which I hope isn't 'SlackWare' ) and run 'xf86config' (since you're using 9.1; in 10.0, use 'xorgconfig') in order to set up X."....

I just typed in "xf8gconfig" and got a "Bad command" message.
do I type in "run xf86config" or am I missing something?

You should just have to type 'xf86config'. Getting a "Bad command" message basically implies either that you're trying to run xf86config as a normal user (which, from the context, I assume you're not), or that xf86config is not in your PATH, or that xf86config simply isn't installed. Now if you did a full install of Slackware 9.1, it can't be the latter two unless your installation source wasn't ok. I don't know where you got Slackware from, but if you downloaded it from an official mirror, there shouldn't be a problem.

If I recall correctly, xf86config should be in /usr/X11R6/bin. If it is, you should be able to run it. You could try giving the full path, like '/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config' (and no, you don't type "run" in front). Another way to set up X is using xfree86setup, so you could try that one as well.

I decided to go with SlackWare 10 instead

The link that nvn provided (Simply Linux):

http://jetblackz.cjb.net/

was most helpful.

So now my desktop is a dual-boot Windows xp/Slackware 10.0 !

I am currently looking at the KDE desktop!

Yippie!

Thanks again to ALL who responded to my post.

Ed Hoff