Nothing even boots just hangs on "li"

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-06-2004, 05:13 AM

yer its set to /dev/hdc ive got a scsi drive so its not hda, thanks for your help. Please keep helpin im really stuck

dopefish · 05-06-2004, 05:26 AM

then it should be /dev/sda

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-06-2004, 03:54 PM

I installed slackware to a drive called /dev/hdc7 and my windows boot one is called /dev/hdc1, I dont think itscalled /dev/sda ill try that though.
Is the fluxbox version 0.9.9 o.k. or isnt it stable enogh.

dopefish · 05-06-2004, 09:10 PM

Lilo has to be installed to the MBR of whatever drive is on your primary controller which should be a /dev/hda or /dev/sda or something.

Yes fluxbox 0.9.9 is very stable i use it myself, its much more configurable than the "stable" releases and supports menu transparency.

EDIT: Whats the output of fdisk -l you will have to run this as root

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-07-2004, 12:50 AM

Ive got lilo going now my hdd is hdc and i changed something else to get it going, But how do i get my floppy drive going.

dopefish · 05-07-2004, 02:50 AM

You have to mount it to access it and make sure you unmount it before removing it from the drive or any data you write to it wont be written. Also you can only mount it as root change /etc/fstab to be able to mount/unmount with user

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-07-2004, 03:50 AM

There is something wroung with my fluxbox it has heaps of error messages, and nothing much works how do i uninstall it and install my new 0.9 version? The insturctions to install fluxbox cd ./confige make make install dont seem to work i cd wich folder or file ive tyed them all and ./configure doesnt work it isnt a command it says, can someone give me better insturcations? Thanks

dopefish · 05-07-2004, 04:02 AM

OK download the source package if its a .tar.gz file use
tar xvzf fluxbox-0.9.9.tar.gz
if its a .tar.bz2 file use
tar xvjf fluxbox-0.9.9.tar.bz2
then go into the directory that it created and type
./configure
make
su
<root password>
make install
To uninstall the stock slackware fluxbox package check /var/log/packages/ for the fluxbox version then su to root and type
uninstallpkg <packagename>

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-09-2004, 06:04 PM

O.k. what do i change in the /etc/fstab to make it good for all users i changed it and the floppy dosnt work now, please help

dopefish · 05-09-2004, 09:00 PM

There should a line something like
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, owner 0 0
change it to
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, user 0 0

Nz_Boy_2004 · 05-09-2004, 11:56 PM

sweet thanks ill get back to you if it works

xanas3712 · 05-10-2004, 12:02 AM

swaret will get you .98 fluxbox and I don't know of anything .99 has that it doesn't.. so it's a bit easier as you can just use swaret --upgrade fluxbox after calling swaret --update.

Swaret from swaret.org btw.