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Old 07-25-2001, 05:37 AM   #1
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Unhappy Slackware 7.0 install help


Okay, A friend i met online sent me a Slackware 7.0 CD and two boot/root disks but then he disapear sorta and i can't seem to find him to help set linux up so i was hoping maybe one of you could do a run down of the installation to atleast help out a little. I need to partition it with my windows me and i downloaded partition magic and registered it now i was wondering what i need to do... Please help.
 
Old 07-25-2001, 06:59 AM   #2
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This will work for a really minimal setup - only 2 partitions...

Use Partition Tragic to shrink you existing FAT(32) partition(s) so you have about 1.5GB available (more would be better, you can manage with about 1GB but its hassle). Now boot from your boot disk, then swap to the root disk when its asks (or boot from the CD and forget the floppies). When you get to the logon prompt logon as root - there no password set.

Once you are in use fdisk or cfdisk to create 2 partitions, the first make about 1.4GB, make the other take up the remaining 100MB.

(Incase you didn't know the way that linux address harddisk take the form of /dev/hda (first hard disk) /dev/hdb (second hard disk) /dev/hda1 (first partition on first hard disk) /dev/hda3 (third partition on first hard disk) etc... So when you use fdisk if you want to work on your first harddisk you run fdisk /dev/hda and when you need to tell setup which partition to use, say it was the third partition on the first hard disk then you would tell it /dev/hda3 - OK??

Now change the type of the smaller partition to 82 (linux swap) then exit back to the command prompt. Now run setup and follow the instructions on screen. When it asks about LILO, install it to the MBR (master boot record) just make sure that you've got any anti-virus BIOS settings turned off otherwise this'll fail. I'd also suggest that if you have room carry out a full install, there are various options for prompting you about each package but either way if you choose full install it'll still install it all... I tend to choose the menu setup and then just select the packages I want and leave it to run. There is a more interactive mode where you get a description of each package and a choice to install it from there, but if you're a newbie this'll just waste your time...

Have a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Instal...WTO/index.html for a better overall setup guide. Slackware is probably the least friendly distro to setup, but you'll learn a lot of the inner workings of you systems a lot faster. If this isn't what you want then get your hands on something like Mandrake 8 or Redhat 7.1 and install that instead.

HTH

Jamie...
 
Old 07-25-2001, 09:21 PM   #3
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Wink partitionmagic problems

i got this error....

Error 2003 while executing Batch.

Error 2003: File size does not match FAT allocation for file.


Any clue what i did wrong?
 
Old 07-25-2001, 09:48 PM   #4
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Sounds like there is something up with the disk that you are running Partition Magic from - get another copy and try again.

HTH

Jamie...
 
Old 08-07-2001, 01:19 PM   #5
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I did and got the same error
 
  


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