coldDeath

If anyone wants to look, I have put this guide into a small website. Its not so great and it still needs a lot of improvement, but i have neatened it up, fixed typos and other things. It just needs a bit more useful information in some places.

But anyway, here it is: http://linuxguide.atspace.com.

Feel free to look around, don't forget that you can still PM me if at any stage you get stuck.

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nnxion

Very nice CD, nicely ordered website. I should really try slackware soon, but I should get a second hard disk first.

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NSchnarr

I read through the first two pages and noticed alot of people were complaining about partitioning. In particular re-sizing the windows ntfs drive.
A great solution to fix this is to run a live cd of linux call GParted. Just download, burn to cd, and boot form a cd. When it boots up it will be showing you all the partitions on your drive and its very clear with how to resize/make/delete partitions.

Just google 'GParted'.

coldDeath

I just looked at Gparted as you suggested and it looks like a good tool to use. I've never heard of it before now but it could prove useful to people who want an easy, quick interface or haven't partitioned before.

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LOI Kratong

Ah so now I have a new box, and I'm hoping to jump on the slackware band wagon. I have tried the installation but it picks up my CD drive as the master drive. The cd drive is the master IDE drive, but my HDD is the master SATA drive.

When loading the kernel with sata.i although it recognises the SATA drive it still tries to write everything in cfdisk to the primary IDE drive. How can I change this so that it uses the HDD, the primary SATA drive as the one it uses?

Sorry if that doesn't make much sense, but I'm sure you get the idea!

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InfoGeek

I faced the same problem when I was trying to install slackware. I don't remember what I did. I prolly changed the jumper settings to make the HDD the primary master.

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LOI Kratong

Yeah, it was a really stupid question, I should've engaged the ol' noggin before asking, I just changed the jumper!!!

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kurifu

The best way to install Slackware, is to install something else instead

Haha, I am only kidding. Good guide. I am a bigger fan of Fedora Core myself, but of course I like a Linux which is easy to configure. Anyone ever play with Gentoo before? You could spend months configuring the damn thing so it would be a productive and usefull environment for a day; then the updates break it all again.

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big_k105

heh, my laptop is in perfectly running order and it is running gentoo. but then again it helps that the hinges are broke and the lid won't stay up so I don't really use it, that is probably a good reason why it still works fine.

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Ooble

My guide to installing Ubuntu (I did this a few hours ago):

1. Insert the CD and reboot.
2. Double-click the Install icon.
3. Hit Next a few times, filling in some user and localisation info as you go.
4. Click Install, and wait 20 minutes.
5. Reboot.

:p

In all seriousness, awesome guide. I've never tried Slackware before - Arch Linux is my favourite "real" distro, but I'm sure it'll help many on the root to guruhood.

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