Just gave up and installed antiX fluxBox from a live cd. It's bootloader is grub and it had noproblems. IDK if all my issues were from Lilo or not but I am sure all the install files for Salix went off w/o a hitch. I will try on another Hdd and skip installing Lilo then use grub just to satisfy my ...

What's the best wat to find a needle in a haystack?

BURN the haystack.

Due to the utterly confusing wording I used in my post, and my uncanny ability to confuse it even more, I have decided to just start from scratch using a Salix Fluxbox install disc. I will keep close notes just in case.

Thank ...

Ok after reading the responses I realize I haven't adequately lain out my situation.

1. the 32bit live XCFE just freezes while trying to load everything it needs to boot. I'm not sure where as I gave up on it a while back.
2. both 32bit standard install discs KDE & Fluxbox will install up to the ...

I have tried to install from a Salix XCFE live, Salix KDE and Fluxbox install CD's and all have failed in some way. The Live Cd wouldn't even run and both install CDs (I made multiple attempte with both) either just froze during installation (Default kernel) or completed the install using the huge.s ...

Although I haven'treally accomplished my goal, I am going to mark this one solved. I am very new to linux and even newer to Salix/Slackware. I have realized that I have a working system and as I learn I will be able to accomplish more and more tasks. By the time I make it into the sudoers club I ...

Thanks gapan
the tuxfiles were/are/will be a great resource for me, I understand ownership and permissions now. I couldn't get the other link to load but I have enough home work for a little while. I'llget to the vim stuff soon enough.

Thx again

Thank you again.

I opened a terminal "su" password cd to /etc/conky/conky.conf did not rename the file then nano conky.conf it opened in nano I edited 1 thing and saved. It worked the effect was obvious as the conky display is now on the right side of my screen.

The su solved my problem. However I ...

First I would like to apologize for being vague in what I was trying to do. I know it has to be irritating to hear "NEED HELP!!!" and then have us noobs not tell you what kind. No excuses. Now I forget what I was trying to do.

I appreciate every ones responses and input.

The file I am trying to ...

I have attempted a couple of things on my new install of Salix. Nothing has worked. I am a noob to linux in general and a super noob to Salix. The thing I am trying to do at the moment is edit my conky config file. I can open it and edit it but I can't save it. Also when I try to do things in the ...

I'm a noob and just about everything in this post is greek to me. However I had a similar problem with Mint and Salix. I installed Mint 13 1st then Salix. I didn't install lilo at the prompt. I then rebooted to Mint and ran Grub customizer. It detected and allowed me to choose what it would display ...