Installing Slackware 10.1

[blazerazor]

So I burned the iso, I boot with bareapci.i, now it wants me to create partitions.

Im using a Old Lappy for this. Compaq 1ghz, 3xxMeg ram etc.

So the installer will not do the partitions by itself? I have to create, size and name them all?, ... .. .

any pointers here guys?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Create a / and a swap partition for now. When you learn something you can do it right.

 

[sigs3gv]

It's not that bad. Once you logon as root, run cfdisk on the disk you would like to partition. Like n0cmonkey said, all you need are a swap partition and a root (/) partition.

 

[blazerazor]

OoKay-Dou-Kay! Linux 2.4.29 (tty1)

The computer told me it was "a prisoner in a Fortune cookie file!" , lol

I know this is Noob, but... now that im at the # prompt, what do I do.
I know I should create some 'users' so as im not always 'root', but im just learning here so I dont really care. Suggestions?.

[EDIT] I typed STARTX and got to FLUXBOX 0.9.12 , and mozilla will not work... How do I configure my DHCP ethernet card - which is build into my laptop?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Don't use root for everything, especially when you're learning.

Did you install dhclient or dhcpcd? Try:
locate dhclient
and if that doesn't return something:
locate dhcpcd

ifconfig -a should tell you whether your ethernet card was initialized, if it wasn't you'll have to figure out which driver module to load based on the chipset of the ethernet device.

 

[blazerazor]

Firstly, Thank you guys for helping me.

ifconfig -a should tell you whether your ethernet card was initialized, if it wasn't you'll have to figure out which driver module to load based on the chipset of the ethernet device.

How would I do that?

I have eth1, rx & tx are both 0 across the board and...

lo; UP LOOP BACK RUNNING... it has sent and received 64 packets.

Where can I find a list of commands?; like netview, tracert, ipconfig /all, etc.

 

[yuchai]

As root, type lspci to see a list of hardware. Once you find your ethernet controller in there, google it to find out which kernel module to load.

To load a module, type modprobe <name of module> as root

To run the network configuration to enable DHCP, enter netconfig as root. This should already been done during installation.

I recommend the following site for more information to get you started in Slackware

http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: blazerazor
Firstly, Thank you guys for helping me.

ifconfig -a should tell you whether your ethernet card was initialized, if it wasn't you'll have to figure out which driver module to load based on the chipset of the ethernet device.

How would I do that?

I have eth1, rx & tx are both 0 across the board and...

lo; UP LOOP BACK RUNNING... it has sent and received 64 packets.

Where can I find a list of commands?; like netview, tracert, ipconfig /all, etc.

eth1 is your ethernet card.

help might give you some commands. There are some threads on this stuff buried here (search for commands and something should pop up).

netview doesn't exist, tracert turns into traceroute (which actually makes sense unlike tracert), ipconfig is replaced by ifconfig (interface configuration instead of internet protocol configuration, it makes more sense since you are configuring the interfaces).

cd is cd, ls shows files instead of dir, mkdir makes a directory, touch either touches a file or creates one, rmdir removes a directory, and man can give you manuals on all of your favorite commands.

man man is a place to start.
man afterboot may work and provide some useful information.
Search the man pages with man -k KEYWORD.