[Lvlug] Slackware 10.0 released

[Dann S. Washko]

James Skow wrote:
> Jon McNamara wrote:
> 
>> James Skow wrote:
>>
>>> yeah, i had the same problem with fedora core 2. also, if you try 
>>> dual booting it with widows, you won't be able to boot the windows 
>>> partition until you do some command line stuff in recovery mode. what 
>>> a pain in the ass. that's why i'm not gonna bother with fedora anymore.
>>
>>
>>
>> well - I did get a Win98 and FC2 box going just tonight without any 
>> trouble with the MBR - I'm guessing you're talkin' the various W2K or 
>> XP with Linux Dual-boot MBR issues which are known to have caused 
>> frustration.
>>
>> I'll forever be a 'Slack man' when it comes to production GNU/Linux, 
>> but I confess - I'm a sucker for checking out the latest distros - as 
>> time allows, I enjoy 'studying' what the latest 
>> RH/Fedora/SuSE/Gentoo/Debian/Vector/Knoppix/Morphix are doing as 
>> default installs/configs (even the install process/interface itself 
>> interests me, as disturbing as that sounds, but hey...;) - I don't 
>> think I'm too, too alone on this - indeed, I cut through a lot of 
>> CDRs, but I consider it 'keeping in touch with the current distro 
>> crop' -type research and a 'fun' part of GNU/Linux experimentation. I 
>> report as many bugs/quirks as I can validate back to the respective 
>> distro makers, hoping it may help someone.
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> Ok, i need some serious help. I got slackware 10 installed and I made my 
> boot floppy. When I reboot, I can't get it to boot into KDE no matter 
> what. Keep in mind that I'm kind of a linux newbie, so I don't really 
> know what i'm doing.
> 
> All I can tell you is that I have Slack installed on a 10 gig partition 
> of my 2nd hard drive. I have a 1 gig linux swap set, and the rest is for 
> the ext3. When I use the floppy to boot, for some reason I can't just 
> hit enter. I have to type in "mount root=/dev/hdb3". The farthest I was 
> able to get with that was some prompt that said something like 
> "root at darkstar". Any type of help you can give me would be greatly 
> appreiated.
> 

startx

You are booting into run level three by default.  Edit /etc/init to 
change the default run level to 5 if you want to log straight into X.

Another thing you can do is init 5 on the command line to switch the run 
level.


> Thanks,
> James
> 
> P.S. - If you, or anyone you know from the LVLUG lives in the 
> Whitehall/Allentown area, and would be willing to come over and give me 
> a hand, that would seriously rock. I've been trying to come to the 
> meetings, but I don't have a car right now. Hopefully I'll have one some 
> time soon. Thanks again.
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