My challenge is I'm not a professional programmer or developer. So complaining does not help much. Otherwise I'd make these kinds of changes. However, I have mildly perused some of the pkgtools related scripts and possibly after I become more confident and proficient with bash (and ncurses) that I just might make some of these changes. Another change is I'd add the confounded two-button mouse with scroll wheel option. I'm weary of reading about THAT one too.

I'd also like to see some KDE front-end tools that would help the newbie experience, or the command line-challenged, such as a dialog box to start/stop/restart services. I was looking at Kommander the other day and I think these kinds of tools are possible without a lot of programmer experience or savvy. But those days are far off for me right now. I only receive 24 hours in my day too!

As I wrote in another thread, Slackware's minimalism is both a benefit and a challenge. Which one depends upon one's experience and which side of the bed one rises that day.

Stupid question: you said you installed slack and are at the prompt. Did you run "setup" yet?
After you install you have to run "setup" next. The install is only halfway done.

hmmm, thats a stupid response. why would you run setup after you installed it? after you boot the cd you run setup. he did say he chose full install. you only see that if you have run setup, so this isnt really a stupid question.


back to the issue, we havent heard from the OP, zahadumy, have you tried any of the suggestions yet?

Thanks for your a**hole attitude. Doesn it make you feel superior to attack people who are trying to help?

are you sure you have enough disk space? type "df" and give us the results

did you recieve any errors while installing?

when you installed did you check for bad blocks?

do you get anything when you type init 4?

if you were helping you wouldnt have insulted zahadumy by saying his question was stupid. if you had read the thread a little more thoroughly you would have gathered that he got past the initial boot prompt and had gone through the install.

To me it parsed like npn was describing his own question as stupid, not the OP's.

yip, confusing indeed.
but the " : " indicates you're right.

egag

1) I wasn't insulting zahadumy, I was being polite by asking him if did the obvious *without* insulting him. 2) you get the boot prompt after the Install CD boots - so it could have been he thought that was it and tried "startx" at that point which would give him the same "can't find startx" message he was talking about.
Sorry for the confusion.

Spoken like a gentleman!

npn - my apologies as well. didnt mean to get this topic off track. thanks for clarifying your post

Also spoken like a gentleman!

So, zahadumy, are you getting anywhere with this?