I have just made the boot discs and they all worked fine. Now im at the prompt root@slackware. Im guessing that I have to partition the hardrive through linux commands. Is this correct?

Actually, iirc, you should get all kinds of messages about what's about to happen but, yeah, then you hit enter at the root prompt, run fdisk, and type 'setup'. Happy slackin'!

Well, actually, everyone but me seems to prefer 'cfdisk'. *g*

Cool so i should use cfdisk to manually partition the hard drive?

Yep. Again, iirc, you can access the man pages during the install so you could 'man (c)fdisk' if you're not familiar with it or just dive right in if you are.

-- Oh, and I should say - if you take a look at the Slack book at slackware.com, it'll go over a lot of the basics - I think it was written for 8.1 or something, but it's still useful, especially the description of installing.

I guess i got confused with "iirc" not sure what that stands for. "man fdisk" is equivalent to something like a readme file?

If I Recall Correctly. On Slack you'll have a program called 'wtf' which will help with that. - Yeah - check my edit above about reading the Slack Book first. I suspect that would really help. 'Man' is like *the* documentation for all your tools. A command (executable file) which displays specially formatted files on your terminal with a complete (mostly) description of usage.

I will definetly check the 'slack'book out . Thanks for your time and 1 final question Debian or Slackware? I have 2 older machines 1 500mhz and the other 150mhz and would like to install a faster system than mandrake but that could be used as a webserver. Thanks again!

This box triple boots W2K, Debian, and Slackware in theory but, in practice, it's all Slack. But opinions differ - just mine. I also don't run a server. I'd say either would do as well there, but I don't really know. Debian's install can be a bit, um... a bit of a pain. *g* But, in theory, using outdated software as it does, it's supposed to be very stable and, with the package management, in theory, it's supposed to be easier to maintain. But Slackware's rock solid *and* current and easy enough to maintain and is faster 'out of the box' though either can be tweaked. So you might say 'I just installed Slack so I'll do it again because now I have experience' or you might say 'Well, I've already *got* Slack and variety is the spice of life.'

No problem, and enjoy the book.