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03-12-2006, 05:45 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 148
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Installation and Noobie questions...
Ok I will make this short and sweet...
I'm trying to install Slackware 10.1 but it won't boot, it finishes, and when it gets to booting the hd it does nothing. Now I've had it working before but I moved back to windows now I'm back for another try. My specs are
Processor: AMD 2600+
MoBo: ABiT NF7-S
RAM: 512mb
Graphics Card: Radeon 9600 pro 128mb
Onboard sound and network.
Now I don't know what kernel I should use, or how to set up my network, if I could just get it to boot I'd be happy...I would try a noob friendly distro but none look as comfortable as slackware.
Expect to hear more from me as I get this rolling...
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03-12-2006, 05:47 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
Posts: 2,247
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You didn't mention what is your hard-drive and cdrom.
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03-12-2006, 05:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 148
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Well my Hard Drive is really old, 7.4 GB(it's just a spare i'm installing it on), and two CD-Roms, both AOpen, one is a DVD burner, 16x, 8x, 48x, and the other is a CD Burner 52x
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03-12-2006, 06:02 PM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
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Does your machine hang or black screen come?Do you get any error while booting? Maybe this would help: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...re/BOOTING.TXT
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03-12-2006, 06:40 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Boston
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 502
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I was installing slack on my laptop tuther day and couldn't figure out why it wasn't booting, until I remembered that during installation I had whizzed through the bit about where to install lilo. The default is the root partition i think, but in my case I needed it on the MBR.
Just a thought.........
Cheers
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03-12-2006, 06:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 148
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Ya i missed the error about Lilo not installing properly...So I fixed it...
So now for the noob questions!
Umm I don't know how to configure...
1.My network to get online
2."X"
3.A new user so I don't use the root all the time, yet still have that new user to be able to mnt and unmnt cds and other basic things.
4.How to get it to say Darkstar instead of Home...I like Darkstar better...
And finally...
How to get my Sata HD on Lilo so I can boot XP at the beginning.
Thanks for the help so far.
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03-12-2006, 06:51 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
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If I could get it working online the rest of the configuration would happen so much faster.
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03-12-2006, 07:04 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Boston
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 502
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try this for starters
# netconfig
and type the stuff that applies to you
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03-12-2006, 07:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10
Posts: 27
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netconfig would take care of #1 and #4.
xorgconfig for #2.
adduser for #3.
Have fun 
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03-12-2006, 08:01 PM
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#10
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 148
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Ok, well it's still not working, can someone step me through the configuration?
With adduser can you control what the user can and cannot do?
I now have "X" configured 
Is there a way to upgrade to 10.2 without getting the entire distro?
Last edited by Linux_n00b_57; 03-12-2006 at 08:02 PM.
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03-12-2006, 08:06 PM
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#11
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
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I'm also having problems with getting Lilo and Slackware to see my SATA drive...
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03-13-2006, 01:58 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
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Use sata kernel.
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03-13-2006, 09:44 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
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Alright, how do I install the sata kernel without reinstalling linux?
Also I've been having problems mounting my Cd Drive and my Fat32 drive...Windows says the Fat32 drive is unformatted, is there some way to fix that?
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03-13-2006, 10:21 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Central Florida 20 minutes from Disney World
Distribution: SlackwareŽ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Linux_n00b_57
Alright, how do I install the sata kernel without reinstalling linux?
Also I've been having problems mounting my Cd Drive and my Fat32 drive...Windows says the Fat32 drive is unformatted, is there some way to fix that?
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Hi,
You could read some searches here on LQ for your problems!
The sticky's in this forum cover a lot of your questions.
You could read some on-line references. I would suggest you to read Shilo's refernce #11 in my sig. Several in my sig are noob feed.
HTS! (Help Thy Self)
Last edited by onebuck; 03-13-2006 at 10:22 AM.
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03-13-2006, 10:23 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 148
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I'll check them out, thanks...
PS. Google didn't help me.
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