Hello everyone out there. I'm new on this forum, and fairly new to using Slackware Linux, well, new from practical side, theoreticaly I know some things..
So I wonder here, before I install Slackware on my machine with other OS.
First my question would be, I know that Slackware already provides built in Desktop Environments such as, KDE, X Windows Manager, FluxBox, BlackBox, and so on.
I was wondering, can I already doing "first touches" to Slackware make my own, or download some other that I seem to like?
And the second..
Right now I have partitioned my HDD into two pieces, it's Disk C:/ and Disk D:/. These were created a long time ago, when writing Windows. In near future I will formate my HDD, and on one of them I will write Windows OS, and on another one Slackware.
To make it more clear - right now I have 500GB HDD, partitioned into half, I will formate it to be one full 500GB again, and then re-partiotion that, let's suppose C:/ would be Windows and it's 300GB, and other partition is D:/ which is 300GB and then I will create, already with Slackware cfdisk partitions for Slackware root and swap. Is this a good way to do the job or will I do something bad with this method..?

I can say that very glad to join the forum, and hope that here I will find the answers for questions about Slackware and Linux distributions.. Cheers!

Yes you can roll your own from source or download a prebuilt package.

For a home systems, I would partition it like you mentioned. C:, /, and swap.

You will find the Slackware users here are very helpful. This is the place I heard about Slackware and learned much from the users here. Welcome.

Thank you very much, for welcome, I've heard, that Linux users are very helpful to each other..

But should I make partitions with the Windows, I mean when I install Windows on my machine, during this first I come to the moment where it askes about formating and partitioning my HDD, is this the moment where I should do the partitioning..?

You only need to make a partition for Windows, just leave the space you want to use for Linux unpartitioned. You can do the rest of the partitioning with cfdisk.

Install Windows first. Create your Windows partition and leave the rest of the dist as free space. Then when you install Linux, use that free space.

Oh i thought so.. Thank you both..

The Slackware installer is very smart, it will see your windows partition and guide you through setting up your windows/slackware dual boot.

Right, thanks!

Eeeh, I forget to mention something, about the partitioning job.
Let's suppose that I want that in my Windows OS there would be C:/ as main and D:/ for other stuff HDD partitions, and the third one, free space for Linux.
So in the sence I should for example install Windows in C:/ , already created partition, leave all space free, than install Slackware, and take as much as I need, and all other left place would go as partition D:/ in Windows.. am I right?

Then create D: after you install Linux.

Usin' fdisk or something from Windows?

Windows would be the easiest.

Be careful, because I remember from long ago when I dual booted, Window$ will easily format other unrecognized partitions that it finds as NTFS without much prompting.

All right, I'll remember that, thank you all for such help..

With 500 GB of free disk, I would do something of this sort -

C: for Windows installation - 80 GB
D: for common data files/music/movies - 220 GB

Rest 200 GB would be partitioned for Slackware - /, /home, swap.

Just my opinion.

Regards.

Wouldn't 200GB's for Slackware be, little too much..?