On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Spencer wrote about, slippery slackware:
> Hello Gurus:
>
> I had some extra hdd space, and I thought I'd try installing Slackware 7.0
> for fun (does this mean I'm a geek?) So although I'm running RedHat6 now,
> I put Slackware on another partition.
No not a geek a real linux user.
>
> I got through the install OK, and everything seems alright; I currently boot
> Slackware from a floppy. So far so good, except I cannot seem to get X started.
>
> I first tried the command $ startx as a user, then as root; to no avail.
> Only when using the whole path: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx would it try to run X.
First thing, what and how did you install slackware and have you run
"xf86config"?
If you are now going to run xf86config backup /etc/XF86Config first.
>
> Then I tried using xinit (which I've never used before) but again, Slackware
> wouldn't find the command until I used the whole path.
Slackware has always had this PATH defined, its derived from the old BSD
idea of having to type the whole path for commands, or so i have been told.
You should have startx in 3 differnt places,
pa3gcu:~$ whereis startx
startx: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/X11/bin/startx
and you should have xinit in the same manner.
pa3gcu:~$ whereis xinit
xinit: /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/X11/xinit /usr/X11/bin/xinit
The files are the same size and same permissions in all dirs.
>
> It seems I need to call KDE or something (according to what I read on the last
> 3 lines of this message.
No, you simply type startx, the answer to cant find;
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program
named "xterm" in PATH
is because the file xinit is not there, hence me asking what and how you
installed.
Slackware asks you a lot of questions after all the packages have been
installed, it asks about which window manager you want as default and it
then sets up all the links. As to configuring X i cant remember, i always
use xf86config after i have booted for the first time.
Either you skipped that section of the install and you then did not get X
installed properly or you skipped the confguration altogether.
[BIG SNIP]
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no program named
>"xterm" in PATH
>
> Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin
> is in your path.
# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/etc/ax25/fbb:/etc/ax25/fbb/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$OPENWINHOME/bin:/usr/games"
Is a line just above what you sent this mail, it is default for
slackware-7.0.
Use 'pkgtool' to install packages you missed, or 'setup' may even help.
--
Regards Richard
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