How to halt or back out of an installation?
 

How does one halt or back out of an installation?

I mean what is the shutdown command that will work during the installation (which logged me in as root)?

There is none. After logging as root you can either halt or reboot.

If there is no 'cancel' button, just switch off the computer & it will put a stop to everything, but, if you have reformatted your disk, your previous files/distro/OS will be gone!

If the new system is installed, then that is your new system, but you can re install another distro in its place if you want to.

Didier and fatmac, many thanks.

This is a dual boot with Win7. Almost the first thing the install disk told me is that I must first have at least 2 Linux partitions prepared, before I run setup. So I wanted to stop the installation in order to get into Windows (which is installed) to set up the partitions.

Didier, after reading your reply, I said "halt," which took effect. I am guessing that I should have said "reboot." So I then turned off the computer, as fatmac suggested and am now able to get into Windows.

You can Ctrl+C to get out of the installer and then run whatever commands you may need to do, whether that's halt or fdisk.

Have a read here:

http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install

You can set up your partitions as part of the install process if you like.

How to halt or back out of an installation
 

i tried to install nvidia drivers after fresh installation. every time i install and reboot i get error and i need to format every time. can u people help me how to install the correct driver for it. or Nvidia Quadro Fx3500 does not support linux?

thanks in advance,
Sanjay.D

First: if you reformat every time you run into an issue, you will not learn. Stop reformatting, sit down, read, think.

Read: go to the Nvidia driver download site (https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us), check what driver is supporting the Quadro FX 3500 and you'll end up at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driv...px/73666/en-us which is the 334.21 version from 2014. Apparently newer drivers are no longer supporting your card.

Note, if you want to un-install a Nvidia driver you can, but afterwards you need to re-install Slackware's mesa and xorg-server packages because Nvidia overwrites some of their libraries.