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November 19th, 2003, 04:15 AM
#11
Member
oh man, i think i broke my computer (not this one this ones my moms) i installed slackware by prettymuch just pessing enter... i dont know if i did it right i know i cant connect to the internet cause it asked domain name and i just put anything i dont know what im doing. my moms gonna hurt me........... is slackware suppose to look like a shell or what? i dunno what im doing........... sorry if this is unclear im trying to type b 4 my mom gets home
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November 19th, 2003, 04:18 AM
#12
Member
uhh slackware isnt even working right........
it just says root@blah blah no desktop or nothing.
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November 19th, 2003, 04:20 AM
#13
Try typing startx. I have never used slack so I don't know much if anything about it, but try that, if it works, great, if not, oh well, someone else probably has a real solution.
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November 19th, 2003, 05:51 AM
#14
Member
it worked thanks! but istill have a problem or two, i think i killedd windows and i cant use the internet.
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November 19th, 2003, 06:02 AM
#15
I don't understand. If you just hit enter all the way through the install you may have killed windows. It also could have been asking if you wanted to keep you windows partition, so I don't know. As for the internet, you should be able to configure your network card to recieve an ip or just assign it one. What are you using for your connection, cable with router, just cable, dialup?
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November 19th, 2003, 08:39 AM
#16
Member
Hello Ammon,
you are mixing up things, i guess your RH9 problem not yet solved and you already in slack. (Please dnt feel bad) but if you dont know how to check MD5 values, i guess you should not even think of slackware.
You new to linux, so move 1 step at a time, get your RH9 running and play around with it (Well a better option would be a distro which runs from the CD-ROM like Knopix, so that you would not mess your windows ). Get a book or two on linux (and also check our tutorial forum here, am sure you will find alot) and get to learn the commands.
Hope this guideline will help you.
The FACT that people ignore FACTS
doesnt mean that FACTS are not FACTS
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November 19th, 2003, 01:17 PM
#17
Junior Member
Actually, I would love if you posted a step by step FTP install. I am not the one who originally asked the question, but I think it would be helpful to know. I have always had trouble installing various linux distros by cd -red hat and college linux- and it would be great to have an alternative solution. Thanks.
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November 19th, 2003, 01:19 PM
#18
Member
i didnt realy just hit enter, but when i was supose to make swap partitions i changed my windows pratition from windows type to linux type. and im using roadrunner cable with a wireless LAN
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November 19th, 2003, 03:41 PM
#19
From what you just said, you've screwed up big-time. When you changed your windows partition to a linux partition, you totally wiped out windows. All your data is gone and you're going to have to reinstall windows, and most likely linux as well. Boot from your windows CD and see if you can get a recovery console. If not, it's game over and you got to reinstall. To dual-boot windows and linux, do it in this order:-
1. Boot from your windows CD and create a partition that only leaves 10-15GB unpartitioned space. This newly created partition is where you will install windows. The unpartitioned space is going to be for linux.
2. Install windows, get all your updates, patches, and software installed.
3. Boot from your linux CD, and create a swap partition that's 1-2x the size of your physical memory. If you got 512MB, I'd suggest 1GB for swap.
4. Create another partition that fills the rest of your disk. This is your root partition for linux.
5. Carry on with the linux installation, and all will be well.
If you're short on disk space, you can get away with only using 4-6GB for linux. If possible though, you should try and allocate as much as you can afford to. If you also have to create a /boot partition, make it 32MB, and make it the second partition on the drive. This is just for historical reasons though. The partition can be anywhere on modern computers, so the partition number isn't really relevant.
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November 19th, 2003, 03:56 PM
#20
I say if you already have slackware installed you should just leave it as is and not risk reinstalling again and having it not work. You are getting a new computer anyway right, just put windows on that one. I guess your mom will probably be mad but just explain to her that you can set up the new machine to be just like the old one with windows on it. As for you internet, There should be some sort of setup thing for your network card. Look for a control center or go to the menu at the bottom left of the desktop and look at every option for something about internet or network. And just mess around with that. Good luck.
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