I installed Slackware.

Someone please tell me that there is a GUI part to it. :-)

Mine went to a "darkstar prompt."

Andy

If you want it to boot into X, edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel from 3 to 4. It should be clear how to do that once you open the file.

I refer you to this http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide the graphical info is near the end, however it is all information that needs to be known.

and change 3 to 4

back at a prompt,

Not only is there a GUI part to it but there are several. Most distros come in versions based on default desktop. Slackware comes with several and several more can be added. These are interesting and fun but also it is possible to borrow parts of one to use in another.

In addition to DEs/WMs there are many ncurses based applications that will give you basic graphic apps without any of the footprint, dependencies, or problems that come with X. Some hardcore use these all the time but most just fall back on them when there is some problem in X, which used to be rather common with some video cards. There still are such problems if you try to use or install a proper driver or fail to blacklist a conflicting one. Then it is really sweet to be able to fire up Lynx for access to online docs, or BitchX and go to a Slackware or Linux-based IRC channel to get help.

Slackware could not get my wireless network going.

Second failure of 15 distros that I have tried.

Then I tried Mint.

It has worked before, but not today and I tried twice. md5sum was fine.

Tomorrow will be better. :-)

Documentation. It exists. It's free. I mean, there are tons of documentation about Slackware out there, providing answers to basic questions like this. For instance, if you had visited the official website you would have found the following links, on the main page:

The Revised Slackware Book Project: the first, highly recommended reading for every Slackware user.
The Slackware Documentation Project

And, of course, you might want to search the LQ archives.

I think you missed this part of my post.

Please spell out more things like LQ. ??

Thanks.

Dugan,

Thanks I got to a GUI, but other problems made it necessary to dump Slackware.

Andy

To answer OP's original question, when Slackware boots to the command line, you can start the GUI after logging by typing startx and pressing enter.

You can change the default GUI by running the command xwmconfig after logging in and before starting the GUI.

@Fixit7, what hardware are you running? Did you enable networkmanager on the install?

I do not recall seeing a prompt to enable networkmanger.

Andy

It is in the install. If you don't do it there, you can run as ROOT:

P.S. You don't type the '#', it represents a terminal prompt as the root user.

;^)

About 6 hours elapsed from the first post on this thread and the OP giving up on Slackware.

Fixit7, perhaps Slackware isn't the right Linux distribution for you.

Unless "dump" just meant to free disk space and deal with Slackware another day.

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I feel that I am pretty patient.

I have six kids, and 8 grand kids.

I have used 15 + distros of Linux.

Have a great week.

Andy