Excited to Slack!

**JCaserta** · 05-12-2005

I am in the midst of choosing a distro to go with, I am a new Linux user, and from everything i have read Slack is where I want to go. I had been doing alot of browsing screenies to see what the different distro's looked like as well. I got a bit worried that I wouldnt be able to get the look that I wanted, from bits and pieces I had seen from random screens, but much to my excitement I started finding screens that had alot of what I wanted and the people were using Slack!! So I now know that I can have the distro of my choice and the look of my dream desktop. I truely wish the post your desktop thread was more active, as I would love to see what the more veteren users find most useful to have on their desktops. I do understand that alot of it is just preference and based on what kind of things your doing with your puter, but still nice to look at. So all in all this is a Hello from a soon to be new Slack users.

**adrenaline** · 05-12-2005

Welcome aboard the slacker trail. I personally am glad to see more slackers joining. This a great community and I am sure you will like slackware a lot once you get it dialed in. The road to get there is bumpy at times but once you are there it is smooth sailing
welcome
Mike

**JCaserta** · 05-12-2005

Holy CoW!! 4 discs I had no idea it was soo big. Why is it soo much bigger than others that I have looked at, is it that it comes with many apps already installed or what?

**budman7** · 05-12-2005

When I installed Slack, I only used the first two discs.
And I don't have any problem with Slack.

**Krendoshazin** · 05-13-2005

you only need the first two disks, cd's 3 & 4 are source code

**JCaserta** · 05-13-2005

that is fabulous news as I am in the middle of DLing 3 and 4 and it has stalled =\ glad you told me so i can just cut it and forget it =D

**gimp335** · 05-13-2005

You only need the first disk to install Slack. 2nd disc if you want KDE and Gnome, of course you may as well not install Gnome since it won't be included in future Slackware releases.

**Krendoshazin** · 05-14-2005

the second disk also has the 'testing' directory, but yeah, for most well matured slackware users they'll only need the first disk

**JCaserta** · 05-14-2005

Oh no I installed slack and lilo, when i booted slack for the first time it asked me for my darkstar login. I have no idea wth that is!! I never set that up. I tried not entering anything and that didnt work. this is slack 10.1 btw. I hope someone can help.

**budman7** · 05-14-2005

Just login as root, no password.
To set a root password, do

Code:

passwd

Then you will need to add a user.

Code:

useradd or adduser

one of those should work.
Then to create a password for that user, do

Code:

passwd username

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