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hey my slackware boots up and gos to the runlevel 3, when I got it set at 4. The error its giving me is "could not start kdeinit4 check your installation". how do you go about fixing that? thanks in advance
ok I tried slackpkg but I found out that my settings apperantly have been erased, so I had to comment a mirror and start over, but still dont have internet. so how do you find your info for iwconfig like example ip address etc. cause I will have to do it manually I dont have wicd pretty much all my programs that i had have been deleted. I think i know what i did. i have a backup harddrive 500gigs and i tried to run it on that computer but the only thing i got was a J and that was it. so when i went to start up the computer it did this. I dont know what was on hard drive but i think it was my backup for window 7 would that possibly screwed it up?
oh and no i cant use a diff window manager the only way i know how to use it was with the gui i dont know how to do it from the terminal. thanks
Last edited by linux/unix87; 09-18-2011 at 06:37 PM.
Ok I got a question how do you speak to a usb flash drive and copy the files on it to the home directory sort a say? I know how to change directories but i never had to copy files from a flash drive to a directory. the reason im asking is that my wireless driver which is broadcom is on the flash drive I need to build this package so my hardware will work and so i can download wicd to update like andrewthomas said in his thread. Anyway i would greatly appreciate it. thanks oh i forgot you guys arent exactly going to tell me so just guide me in the right direction. thanks again
When you plug the flash drive in, it may auto-mount under /media, look there.
Ok I changed into that directory and use ls now the problem is is that I have know idea what the flash drive is called floppy maybe? If it is that there is three of them. I only have 1 put in.
If the usb has a label associated with it, it would probably be under /media/LABEL, or if not then it may be under /media/UUID where UUID is the uuid of the partition. If there is only entries such as:
Code:
ls /media
README cdrecorder1 cdrom1 dvd1 floppy1 hd1 memory1 zip1
cdrecorder cdrom dvd floppy hd memory zip
cdrecorder0 cdrom0 dvd0 floppy0 hd0 memory0 zip0
Then the drive is not mounted and you must mount it with the mount command to access the media.
If the usb has a label associated with it, it would probably be under /media/LABEL, or if not then it may be under /media/UUID where UUID is the uuid of the partition. If there is only entries such as:
Code:
ls /media
README cdrecorder1 cdrom1 dvd1 floppy1 hd1 memory1 zip1
cdrecorder cdrom dvd floppy hd memory zip
cdrecorder0 cdrom0 dvd0 floppy0 hd0 memory0 zip0
Then the drive is not mounted and you must mount it with the mount command to access the media.
Ok I understand that i have to mount it but i dont know what it is called where can i find that info
out of this info what would I actually type in for the name of it. If I could just figure out the name im pretty sure I can figure out the rest. I hope lol thanks
Last edited by linux/unix87; 10-02-2011 at 07:31 PM.
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