It should contain at least a listing for
your Linux partition and possibly for a Windows partition (if there is one on your computer).
Press Enter at the boot prompt to start Slackware. Log in as the root user when you see the login
prompt. You are going to be at a Linux command line prompt; if you don??™t know what that is, refer
to Chapter 2.
Here are a few things you might want to do to get started with Slackware:
Get mail??”Type mail at the command-line prompt. You should have a couple of mail
messages there for the root user, including one from Patrick Volkerding. Type the number
of that message and page through it (using the Enter key) to read some additional setup
steps that may interest you. (Type q to exit the message and x to exit mail).
Add another user??”Because you shouldn't use the root user account for your daily use
of Linux, you should add a regular user account and give it a password. Here??™s what you
run to add a user named robby:
# useradd -m robby
# passwd robby
Changing password for robby
New password: ********
Re-enter new password: ********
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Be sure to use the -m option to useradd (to automatically create the new user's directory)
or you will have to create a home directory for that user manually.
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