don't forget that if things don't workout alright with the install the first time around, you can use the first cd/dvd to boot a kernel and mount your filesystem to /mnt and chroot to it and you will basically be modifying your OS there in the shell, so if something didn't work out right the first time, there should be no need to go though the whole install again like some OS's (cough...windoze...cough)

Welcome to slackware!!! hope you enjoy it!!!

nekkutta

I have the slackware 12 cd set, and it appartently doesn't come with a Live Linux boot cd. The installation disk is bootable, but It appears to only have the installation applications and I don't think that all the commands are there. I tried to do man lilo.conf and I get a command not found type of response (I don't remember exactly what it says). All I know is what I've read, and floppies were the only backup option that I read about. Do you know if the latest slackware set gives you some other way of creating bootable media just in case? I don't think there are many floppy drives out there anymore, I don't have one.

There is no Slackware Live CD (thought there are slackware based live CDs available). You should be able to find all you need to know about lilo on the internet. Try googling 'man lilo' for instance.

The slackware installation does give you the option of creating a USB-flahdrive boot disc but I have never tried this myself.

I've just been getting all my info from the slackbook and things like the info is a few years old. I guess the 2nd cd on prev. versions of the cd set was a bootable cd operating system but not on 12. If I can make a usb bootable flashdrive as a rescue then that would be good, I just don't know how else to get into slackware if I can't get lilo to boot sdb, but it sounds like it wont be a big deal, now that I have everything I'll just go for it!
Thanks, hope to be posting to success stories very soon.

To get back into your Slackware system you can boot from the install cd/dvd and at the boot: prompt enter:-
This is presuming /dev/sdb is where your Slackware install is. I don't recall disc 2 being a live cd but maybe it was before my time !

Thanks for that info, it's good to know how to get around potential headaches. Yes, the second hard drive will be where linux lives. I have a lot to learn and I'll be depending on the menu driven installation to get me going, and I'm just going to choose the "expert" option in lilo config that hopefully will let me write lilo to sdb (unlike the "simple" option that is demostrated in slackware essentials and lead me to start this thread). The second disc had been refered to as the "ready to boot linux disc" whick I assumed that that is the same as a live cd, and ver.12 doesn't have one.