I don't remember what I should look for - someone had a question
about a suse install, that it had immediately started formatting
their drive or something. Well, I just booted the suse floppies,
and it gave me a very cute splash screen with some kind of creature
and "welcome" in a variety of languages/fonts, then a boot menu a
lot like LILO's, but GUI:

Boot from Hard Disk
Installation
Installation - ACPI disabled
Installation - Safe Settings
Manual Installation
Rescue System

in a box, a text line for boot options, then a sort of menu bar on the
bottom:
F1 Help F2 1280 x 1024 F3 CD-ROM F4 English F5 Silent F6 Driver Update

Well, Boot from Hard Disk boots my LILO.
Installation asks for bootdisk 2 and 3, then asks for the CD. Very
snazzy eye candy, with a selection of menus and stuff, but it didn't
start formatting my drive. Maybe because I didn't put a CD in and
say, "Install".

But one of the options was "shut down", and it shut the computer
down!

How can I make my Slack do that?

(BTW, I don't think I'm going to bother to install Suse just to look
at it - I'm already a Slack Advocate! :-)

But I wanted to be able to say, "See? It didn't do mine." >:->

Cheers!
Rich

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:31:18 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:

> I don't remember what I should look for - someone had a question
> about a suse install, that it had immediately started formatting
> their drive or something.

IIRC, the OP was installing SuSE from a disk she got for free from a
magazine. While I am not at all familiar with this disk, it may be that
this was a third party SuSE promo without YaST, and thus was not equiped
with the installer that those of use who use SuSE are familiar with.

Otherwise I would agree, YaST allows for various formatting options as
well as package selection.

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> But one of the options was "shut down", and it shut the computer
> down!
>
> How can I make my Slack do that?

Enable the kernel apm or acpi support.

For apm, uncomment the
/sbin/modprobe apm
line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules



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Lew Pitcher

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Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
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> How can I make my Slack do that?

Do what? Give you a fancy menu when you put in the installation CD?
You'd have to make your own custom installation CD. If you just want the
pretty menu and options when you boot up, there are a few options. Which
one you'd like to use depends on exactly what it is you'd like to do. The
three options that come to mind are:

1) Install bootsplash
2) Enable a graphical LILO
3) Use GRUB instead of LILO

There's plenty of information on the internet about doing any of those
three things. For me, a boot loader that does it's job is good enough, so
I stuck with LILO. I did enable the Graphical LILO just to make it a bit
prettier. The LILO documentation (which is probably already on your
system) is pretty helpful with that. Just keep a boot disk around in case
you mess up, and remember that you can never run "/sbin/lilo" too many
times.

Good luck,

Shilo

On Monday 27 September 2004 07:40 pm, Lew Pitcher did deign to grace us with
the following:

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> Rich Grise wrote:
> [snip]
>> But one of the options was "shut down", and it shut the computer
>> down!
>>
>> How can I make my Slack do that?
>
> Enable the kernel apm or acpi support.
>
> For apm, uncomment the
> /sbin/modprobe apm
> line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
>
Thanks 10^9 for this! I really did try to search for it - this is why I've
changed the subject line, in case anybody else goes looking. :-)
shutdown linux slackware shut down turn off computer.

Cheers!
Rich

On Monday 27 September 2004 09:24 pm, Shilo Bacca did deign to grace us with
the following:

>> How can I make my Slack do that?
>
> Do what?

Shut down when I tell it "shutdown -h now". :-)
Lew Pitcher answered it for me:
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Enable the kernel apm or acpi support.

For apm, uncomment the
* */sbin/modprobe*apm
line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
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> Give you a fancy menu when you put in the installation CD?

Nah. ;-)
....
> For me, a boot loader that does it's job is good enough,
^
Well, notwithstanding I have to gig you one demerit for the extraneous
apostrophe, I'm with you on that. Eye candy can be fun[0], but I don't
trust it for setting up a new system.

Thanks!
Rich
[0] e.g., I'm using knode on kde right now. And runlevel 4 login was
trivial. Change a 3 to a 4. :-) And it shuts the box down now, too. :-)