Can anybody help me? So far I have spent over $100.00 for slackware software and books, and I am still not able to get a running version of "Slackware". I am not a newbie and not an expert in linux/unix but, it is beyond me as to how to install slackware. I posted a request for help before for v10.2 and I was advised to get v11.0 which i did..it's no easier? Is ther an online tutorial, or downloadable instruction? Many thanks in advance gk3omega1.

Have you tried this?
http://www.slackware.com/install/

That's what I used the first time I installed it.

thanks, i will try reading it again.

What part of the installation is beyond you?

Maybe if you were more specific with your question we could help a little more. For example, did you place the CD in the computer and reboot? Did you get to the fdisk and setup area and install the packages? What was difficult? Be specific.

This is a good one.

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=311808

If fdisk is what is confusing you, use cfdisk. It is a lot easier to understand (and the fdisk man page recommends it for general use).

PS: Remember, run cfdisk or fdisk to make your partitions, then run setup. Also setup formats the partitions, not fdisk or cfdisk. Thirdly, do you already have free space on your hard drive or a partition you can lose, because neither program can shrink partitions.

EDIT: in your last post you say 'the installation brings me around in circles'. What exactly do you mean by this and where in the installation process does this occur? Remember, the more detail you can give us, the easier it is to help you.

Also, if you have the patience, here is a link to a Shockwave movie of a Slackware 10.1 installation. Between 10.1 and 11.0 nothing essential changed in the installation process so this should still be educative.

Eric

A little addition to the ALSA part. (a.k.a.: saving yourself some time, because this took a few hours from my life to get it clear, even though it seems really simple)

Since i tend not to use modules, i compiled ens-1371 into the kernel, this way alsaconf wouldn't find any cards ever.
Nevertheless it get's detected upon boot>
So no worries, just use alsamixer and it should work.

Hi guys, first "Thank You", for the helpful responses, secondly, when it comes to slackware i am sub-newbie. o.k. I completed installing 2 cd.s via newbie,( very time consuming), and the install seemed complete, i rebooted and when i thought i'd see a GUI- it left me at a comand prompt, can't remember exactly what it read but it was the root and well i didn't have a clue where to go from there, slackware can't be all text can it? i mean it reads kde and xfce, etc..plus i have 6 discs in the v 11.0 pkg.I've worked on FC5+6, suse10+10.1, Mandriva 2007, ubuntu6.06, even solaris,installed knoppix5.01...what am i doing wrong? thank you.

by the way i have a dual boot win xp/mandriva 2007.

hello,when you are at the command prompt you need type init 4

reagards

adrian

ok to get your graphical interface up and running type "xorgconfig" in the command line. than when you are done with that type "startx" and that'll bring up the KDE.

By default slackware boots up into command line.
If you have xorg already configured, then you just type "startx" and that starts up graphics interface.

More info on configuring xorg is on slackware site: http://www.slackware.com/config/x.php

If you want to change the default boot runlevel, then edit the file /etc/inittab ,so that you change the line:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

into:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

With this change, slackware should now boot straight into X.

thank you.

just be sure if you change your run level to 4 automatically,that you know xorg.conf is correctly configured otherwise you will be staring at a x11 session manger screen that doesnt boot,all is not lost though you can always boot from a live cd and manualy redit the xorg.conf from there...

regards

adrian