longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Bruno/Slack users.......Just received my copy of Slack 10.2 (4 disks) .. now I have a few questions regarding this adventure ... I have read through the currently posted tips and my questions in particular deal with the GUI, printing, run level, are the same steps still required or have things changed ... I would appreciate the input and hopefully I can do a smooth error free install... Quote
havnblast Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 I installed it and really appears to be the same as 10.1. I don't print with it tho so I couldn't tell ya about that. It just mainly serves is all.GUI no longer has gnomeThere has been some updates to 10.2 so when you install make sure you get swaret up and running and do the updates. Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Yep the same Tips are still valid in version 10.2 Dale . . . no problems there Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 .......Oh yeah .. swaret ... must see if I can remember that .. thanks ... Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 ........Welllll ... in Slack 10.2 ... all went well EXCEPT ... did not make a boot/rescue floppy .. tried but it got kicked out "ran out of space" ,, brand new unformatted disk ... so I would guess that I need that cmd from Bruno to format a floppy to cover the 1.68mb floppy disk image .... put the LILO in the MBR .. not sure if that was correct or not ... guess it can be fixed later .... AND my Logitec trakball does not work ... none of it .... ... and so far other than that and having to change the LILO on MD2005LE to reflect this new install it appears good .... BTW I also have another new distro to try .... BUT not on this machine ..... Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Hi DaleHere is how to format a floppy: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...14&t=503&st=218And here is how to make a boot floppy: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...14&t=503&st=207 ( look at the Slack section ) Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 Bruno,,,,,,,,,,,,Thanks .. floppy formatted/boot made .... now other than my trackballl not working and needing to opdate LILO on MD2005LE ... I d/l swaret, installed it and did updates ... BUT ... some of the updates appeared to be older versions of already installed pkgs and all the d/ls were listed as Slackware 10.0 ... of that I am very suspect that somewhere something is very wrong ..... ????? Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 more info... add user account .. ... but cannot get back to X without using startx ... read the notesI have but just not sure Xorg vs X11 .... Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 I will have to do research for the trackball . . .But as far as Swaret: I suspect that the "/etc/swaret.conf" file was still set to 10.1 ( or even 10.0 ) . . . you had to change that to 10.2 to make sure you get the correct packages.We can do the Mandriva lilo if you tell me what partition Slackware is installed. Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 Bruno....I did a swaret.conf and installed the latest .. stable .. edition according to the swaret website 1.6.3-noarch-2.tgz .....also ... am in MD2005LE now and I did this in lilo here .... changed the kernel to the one in 10.2 .. left everything else as it was ... the vga setting was at 791 and the one listed in the new 10.2 install shows 773 but I left that alone ...10.2 is on hda8......... Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Not clear what you did on the Mandr. Lilo . . But does Slackware boot from the changes you made ? Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 I have not yet attempted that ... be back in a minute............ or 2 Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Judging by the time it takes I guess it did not work . . . So please let me see: ( in Mandrake ) # ls /boot# mkdir /mnt/hda8# mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 Password:[root@localhost dale]# ls /bootboot.0300 initrd-2.6.11-6mdk.img message@ suse/ vmlinuz-2.6.11-6mdkconfig@ initrd.img@ message-graphic System.map@ xandros/config-2.6.11-6mdk kernel.h@ message-text System.map-2.6.11-6mdkdrake10/ kernel.h-2.6.11-6mdk pclos/ us.kltgrub/ map slack/ vmlinuz@[root@localhost dale]# mkdir /mnt/hda8mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/hda8': File exists[root@localhost dale]# mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8[root@localhost dale]#Wellllllllllllll........... it did boot into Slack quite well ... still no X but startx works fine ... the problem is that I could not get ppp to work .. it dials, connects then busts the connection, quits with status 4 , did the cmds it recommended and the results are that kppp is not installed (???) and it keeps refering back to the old kernel 2.4.26 .... Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 The "startx" issue can only be solved by doing what is written here: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...14&t=503&st=144 ( under the heading "GUI login in Slackware" )To be sure that you boot the right kernel ( for the kppp issue ) I would like to see: # cat /etc/lilo.conf# ls /boot/slack Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 [root@localhost dale]# cat /etc/lilo.conf# File generated by DrakX/drakboot# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this filedefault="Mandriva"boot=/dev/hdamap=/boot/mapkeytable=/boot/us.kltpromptnowarntimeout=100message=/boot/messagemenu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bwimage=/boot/vmlinuz label="Mandriva" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht splash=silent" vga=788 read-onlyimage=/boot/suse/vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.201-default label="SUSE" root=/dev/hda10 initrd=/boot/suse/initrd-2.6.5-7.201-default append="splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda5 showopts" vga=0x317 read-onlyimage=/boot/slack/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.31 label="Slackware" root=/dev/hda8 append="hdc=ide-scsi" vga=791 read-onlyimage=/boot/drake10/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk label="Mandrake10" root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/drake10/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" vga=788 read-onlyimage=/boot/xandros/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 label="Xandros_Desktop" root=/dev/hdb7 initrd=/boot/xandros/initrd-2.6.9-x1.gz append="quiet rw acpi=on" vga=0xf04image=/boot/pclos/vmlinuz-2.6.12-oci5.mdk-i586-up-1GB label="Pclos" root=/dev/hdb8 initrd=/boot/pclos/initrd-2.6.12-oci5.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img append="nomce acpi=ht splash=silent psmouse.proto=imps" vga=788 read-onlyimage=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount" read-onlyother=/dev/hda3 label="WindowsXP" table=/dev/hda[root@localhost dale]# ls /boot/slackboot.0308 config@ diag1.img README.initrd@ System.map-ide-2.4.26 vmlinuz-ide-2.4.26boot_message.txt config-ide-2.4.26 map System.map@ vmlinuz[root@localhost dale]# Wellll... I see the problem .... now how do I correct it ?????????? Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Wellll... I see the problem .... now how do I correct it ??????????Simple: ( you forgot to copy over the right kernel and now are booting the wrong kernel that is probably why kppp refuses to work )# rm -rf /boot/slack# cp -r /mnt/hda8/boot /boot/slack# /sbin/lilo Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 ............ A man of direct to the point words ... I shall do those and then we can fix the trackball mouse .... I hope ...... Quote
Bruno Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 Hi DaleFound something for the trackball issue . . . this should be the section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"EndSectionSource: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...282#post1265282 via GoogleB) Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 29, 2005 Author Posted November 29, 2005 Posting from Slack 10.2 ..... that fix is good .... Quote
havnblast Posted November 29, 2005 Posted November 29, 2005 when I installed slack 10.2 I installed the 2.6.12 kernel and it fixed a lot of hardware things, 2.4 just seems to lack hardware support. Quote
longgone Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 .................Wellllllllllll.................. got a problem with getting X gui to work and the problem is that I can't get to it to make the change .... got some/any suggestions ??????????? Quote
havnblast Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 ??change what? I don't follow at what your trying to do Quote
longgone Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 I'm trying to change the run level from 3 to 4 so that I can boot directly into a GUI at the moment I do startx to get it ... Quote
Bruno Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 Hi DalePlease make backups of the files you are editing before you make any changes . . . . because a typo is quickly made and can lead to serious problems: # cp /etc/X11/org.conf /etc/X11/org.conf-BACKUP# cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab-BACKUP After changing the xorg.conf file ( for the mouse ) or the /etc/inittab file ( for the startx ) you will have to reboot . . . . . Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 root@localhost:/home/dale# cp /etc/X11/org.conf /etc/X11/org.conf-BACKUPcp: cannot stat `/etc/X11/org.conf': No such file or directoryroot@localhost:/home/dale# cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab-BACKUProot@localhost:/home/dale# ........ Houston ...... ..... errr Bruno ... this appears to indicate a problem ..... Quote
teacher Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 DaleDid you su before doing this? You need to do that first. Quote
Bruno Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 Sorry Dale . . . I made a typo . . . The command has to be: # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-BACKUP Bruno Quote
longgone Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 Bruno.......... trying to cornfuse us old folk .... uh huh ...Password:root@localhost:/home/dale# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-BACKUProot@localhost:/home/dale#Julia,,, Julia,,, Julia .... does my post have or not have "root" at the beginning of the line ..... I have no choice but to recommend an appointment with an opthamoligist .... Quote
Bruno Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 Good . . now you have backups . . so now you can edit the files. $ su# mcedit /etc/inittab You will get the file loaded in an editor . . .at the bottom you see "1=Help" "2=Save" etc etc . . . those are for the function keys . . . so you save the file ( after the edit ) with F2 . . and close the editor with F10 !!When finished with the inittab file you reboot and see if it works . . . . if all is okay you edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ( # mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf ) with the trackball tweak. Bruno Quote
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