How to halt or back out of an installation?

Tekla · 01-22-2019, 02:18 AM

How does one halt or back out of an installation?

Tekla · 01-22-2019, 02:37 AM

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

Didier Spaier · 01-22-2019, 04:25 AM

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

fatmac · 01-22-2019, 04:27 AM

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.

Tekla · 01-22-2019, 10:35 AM

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.

bassmadrigal · 01-26-2019, 10:40 AM

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.

rkfb · 01-28-2019, 02:41 PM

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.

JamesEr · 06-29-2019, 09:45 AM

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

Alien Bob · 06-29-2019, 05:39 PM

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.