Hi all,

I've only been using LINUX for a short while and hve settled on the suse distro for now, mainly as it was the quickest and easiest way to get a good LINUX system up and running to be free of m$ and start learning how computers really work. I'd like to move on to slackware as this is apparently a more challenging system on which I might leatrn more, (besides I'm just curious by nature). Unfortunately I've kind of fallen at the first hurdle, (hence my absence for a few days). After downloading the slackware ISOs and getting clean burns of them I went ahead and attempted an installation. I installed only the first disk and then took the option to clean up and start from there with a view to building up the system in a methodical manner.

On booting for the first time from hdd the boot sector was recognised and grub loader was found, but before anything else could happen I was given an ERROR 15 message and everything hung. This happened at every attempt and now I'm back with suse. Can anyone tell me what the problem is as I do want to run slackware but obviously need to prepare and learn as much as I can. In particular, wht is ERROR 15 and how do I prevent it.

The version of slackware I'm working with is 10.1 and my sys spec is as follows:

Motherboard: K7S8X
SiS900 Fast ethernet
ASRock insound controller
Graphics: High tec information radeon VE
Monitor: Relisys C708 17"
CPU: Athlon 2400xp
hdd: Maxtor 40 Gb 7200rpm
CD read/write
DVD read
floppy 3.5"

Thanks everyone

regards

Hengist

Google is your friend, link 1 and link 5 will help you

http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&q...G=Zoeken&meta=

Quick explanation, Grub is in your MBR, Lilo (default loader for slackware) is not.
During setup you did not choose to install Lilo into the MBR (what said: possibly unsafe).
You have basicly 2 options.

Install Lilo into the MBR.
Or install/configure Grub.

Hello,
this type of error often comes when there is some mismatching between the values in your grub.conf and the entries in "fdisk -l".

So i would like to ask you that how was your hard disk partitioned before installing slackware and then where you installed slackware....?

regards

Thanks guys,

My hard drive is partitioned as follows:

/dev/hda1 1004.0 Mb Linux swap swap 0 79655
/dev/hda2 37.3 Gb Linux native / 2040 79655

and if I remember correctly (must make more notes in future) everything went on the Linux native partition. If all this sounds incredibly dumb please excuse me. As I say, I'm very new to all this but then the reason I'm doing it is 'cos I want to learn.

Thanks again guys, and those links did shed some light too

regards

Hengist

never mind this posts, useless, where is the delete button ?

I suggest you use fdisk to partition your drive like this:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1148 9221278+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1149 1149 8032+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1150 3738 20796142+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help):

This is my hda. Note that you have a bigger hd, so could make the partitions bigger except for swap. You only need 500 mb for that.
The reason for hda3 is that I make that my /home directory. This saves a lot of time if you ever re-install.

During install the linux partitions are formatted, later you are given a choice on where to install lilo (not grub). I suggest you put it in the mbr.

Happy slacking

Thanks everyone,

From what I can gather from your replies it does seem that the problem resulted from my inexperience at partitioning and the fact that I opted not to go for lilo because of the gentle warning message on installation. I think I've remembered that right. As you might guess my brain is getting a little addled at this hour, I even signed my last post with a nickname I used to use elsewhere

It's looking as if I should be ready for another attempt pretty soon though as a result of what I am learning here, I can see that this forum will become a favourite haunt of mine from here on.

regards,

Draiocht

hi friend dont worry there are many nice links
one goes http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/
but for installation this one is fine better than any one, %i do started from here only here it goes
http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=311808

new slack book2 released http://slackbook.lizella.net/html/index.html u could get a pdf version of tht
BOLuck

Hi everyone,

It's just gone 2am here and on my second attempt (and third pot of tea) tonight I just got slackware installed and running. I realize that to you guys this probably seems like no acheivement to shout from the rooftops but to a newbie like me who up to just over a month ago knew nothing about LINUX it feels like I just had a successful mission launch from Cape Cannaveral.
Gnome seems to have some bugs on this it's first run and my cd and dvd drives and my printer have not been picked up so there is much work to do, but then the reason I wanted to run slack was that it's said to be the distro the requires more manual configuration and I figured this was a good way to learn linux. Besides, the important thing is that I have an internet connection so I can post qestions on the appropriate parts of this forum which has already proved to be a brilliant resource. I suppose the most sensible question to ask first would be what's the best book to buy to learn how to setup and run slack?

Thanks again everyone, this is great fun.

Regards,

Draiocht

Congrats on the install. Being a newbie myself, I know how rewarding it can be to solve these small hurdles. I jumped right in with Slackware. My goal was to learn how the system works, and no better way to learn than at the command line, at least for me.

As for good books, I'm sure that Rute (I don't recall this being the URL, but that's what Google says) will come up, but it's definately not a Slackware book. This thing is awesome. I started using it on-line and was so impressed, I bought it. If you do some searches of the site, you'll find a lot more books recommended.

F_M