Kernel decisions???

[Nephroth]

If you're just looking for Slackware proficiency and you are coming from gentoo, you shouldn't find it terribly hard. Slackware is built on the philosophy: "keep it simple, stupid." So much of your tools are command-line scripts instead of the elaborate graphical ones you will see in other distros.

Runlevels are more BSD-style (as opposed to System V or Gentoo style) so you'll have to look at /etc/rc.d/ and poke around in there.

As for kernel configuration, that's pretty much the same regardless of your distro

[southpaw]

I'm a little confused here, when I did my installation I opted for the "test26" kernel image on disc 1, and when I login the system name says:

Welcome to Linux 2.6.13 (tty1)
Login:

However, when I tried to configure my kernel, I went through the motions:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig

This brings me to kernel-2.4.31, kernel-2.6 is nowhere to be found, what gives???

[adrenaline]

I'm a little confused here, when I did my installation I opted for the "test26" kernel image on disc 1, and when I login the system name says:

Welcome to Linux 2.6.13 (tty1)
Login:

However, when I tried to configure my kernel, I went through the motions:

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig

This brings me to kernel-2.4.31, kernel-2.6 is nowhere to be found, what gives???

What does uname -r say?

[kern]

you have the wrong kernel source package installed

removepkg /var/log/packages/kernel*src*

and installpkg the src package on the second cd

but really, you dont need to compile your own kernel, use the package

and if you do compile your own kernel get one from kernel.org

[southpaw]

Hay adrenaline,
when I type in "uname -r", it says:

2.6.13

????

[Nephroth]

Kern is correct, you've just got the wrong kernel source installed. Use the package on the CD, or get it from kernel.org

[lestoil]

U have succeeded in installing 2.6.13 kernel but rest of install installed kernel 2.4.3x 's modules,source etc--unless u did expert install. One way to fix this is as root insert cd2 then 1)mount /mnt/cdrom 2)cd /mnt/cdrom 3) ls 4) cd 2.6.13 5) upgradepkg *.tgz 6) cd / 7) umount /mnt/cdrom .
This upgrade will give correct modules and other files for ur kernel.
Further tweaking will be needed. Have fun slacking.