what next? Slack Prob.

[777JR]

Installed Slack 9.1 cd would not boot so I made some boot disk and root disk every thig went well during install and reboot till it ask for my root password. I typed my password and it gives me a "darkstar@root # "promt. So what next to get to my slack install? I thought the boot process would complete after the login.:(

[saturn-vk]

but the boot process has completed, it gives you the command prompt, what more could you want?

[jme]

what exactly do you want? You have it installed...what are you wanting to do with your Slack install? Did you install XFree86 and a window manager during the install?

Jme

[serz]

What do you mean? I can't fully understand your problem :(

[Satanic Atheist]

Originally posted by 777JR
I thought the boot process would complete after the login.
Does he perhaps mean:
I thought the installation process would complete after the login.
He's made a boot/root disk and has a prompt, but does not have Slackware installed.

James

[777JR]

I'm sorry for the confusion. I have had alot of headaches over the past 2 weeks let me give you the rundown in a short brand new Red Hat 9 2nd disk would not load . found a person to make ISO of 2nd. disk it works but now the third wont work . So I decided to go with slackware 9.1 ordered a ISO of all 4 disks from a vendor on Ebay I got them and they would not boot so I figured out how to copy files to floppy made the 3 disks. partitioned the drive installed slackware . I finished the Install it rebooted and ask for login. I login as root . put my password in and it gives me anothe promt. I have been running red hat for a while so I expected it to boot to KDE. well I found out that all I had to do is "startx" and it would finish. well now it crashes. So I have installed the only Linux in my house that works a publishers copy of Red Hat 9.

[serz]

Try configuring the X System. As root type:

xf86config

[777JR]

Serz, what do I need to do after x86config. To get the slack I need to reinstall on this machine. :)

[mindcooler]

Did you try starx before running xf86config? If not, try.

[JamminJoeyB]

777JR,

Please update this thread on what distro you are running. I can't figure out if you are still running slack or back to RH.

You say it crashes. Does x crash or is slack crashing? Please post the error or describe the problem in a bit more detail.

Last time I checked Slackware only had 2 cd for version 9.1. All other versions of Slack previous only had 1. What are on the other 2 disks?

[mindcooler]

It has four disks, the last two are source disks.

[JamminJoeyB]

Ok, that makes sense. But I never bother with downloading the source disks.

Thanks for the enlightenment. (i do miss that wm in slack.)

[psi42]

The reason startx is not working is probably because you don't have a working XF86Config-4 (X configuration) file. You can create that file with xf86config, but that asks a lot of questions you really won't be able to answer unless you have the manual for your video card (kind of hard if you have an OEM system.) Probably the easiest way to fix this is to download hwd (amlug.org/new-projects/hwd/hwd.html)--get the source not the archlinux package--and unzip it to /

Run hwd and it will create a working XF86Config-4.hwd file. Sometimes it is not perfect (on my older systems it just seems to want to use the vesa driver for everything) but 99% of the time it WILL work. After you run hwd, do:
cp -v /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.hwd /etc/X11/XF86Config-4Then try running startx again.

~psi42