[Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1

[Alex Craddock]

I have a feeling that it was something very silly.  I don't know exactly why 
it didn't work before but I managed to fix it by going into dfdisk and 
deleting both Linux partitions, then creating them again and running the 
whole installation from 'add swap' again.  Then the installation worked 
properly and installed all packets of software.


>From: Jill Tovey <jill.tovey@bigbluedoor.com>
>Reply-To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Problem while installing Slackware 8.1
>Date: 15 Jun 2003 09:48:28 +0100
>
>On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:59, Alex Craddock wrote:
> > Good news.  I have sorted out that problem it seems.
>
>Out of interest - do you know what went wrong?
>
>  Slackware has
> > installed, however when it came to the login prompt, I logged in and 
>typed
> > 'startx'.  It came up with an error saying that it couldn't start the 
>server
> > because it couldn't recognise my monitor (I think, could have been 
>graphics
> > card it was a bit hard to understand).  It said though that the problem
> > might be if the graphics card was made after September (?) 2002 and the
> > version of Xfree86 wasn't the latest.  I just got a new graphics card - 
>a
> > GEforce2, I don't know what Linux's support for that is like but I 
>should
> > imagine it would be supported.  Help with the problem would be 
>appreciated.
> > By the way, the internet also works so I was able to have a go on Lynx.  
>A
> > few questions (sorry) is there a IRC client that runs from the prompt?  
>How
> > do you enter a URL in Lynx?  Thanks.
> >
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