I need help loading Slax

[penguinmat]

I am having trouble starting up slax.

When I boot up it recognizes the CD and puts me into DOS and im not sure what to do. I have tried reasearching it so please dont tell me to google it.

I'm new to Linux, never used it before and it seems like many people on these boards know what they're talking about, so if you can help me I would greatly appreciate it.

[cmh0101]

Do you get a logon prompt asking for user name and password after you boot the cd?

I've never used slax but usually when Linux contains a GUI you can type the command startx to start the X windows manager.

[moonlit]

If that's DOS as in:

[version of DOS here]

with a prompt that looks like:

A:>

then you burnt the CD wrong. If your burning app gives you the option to make the disc you're burning 'bootable', don't check it, just burn the iSO straight to the disc. DVDDecrypter does this without any fancy options and can even burn to DVDs if you run out of CDRs.

However, if it's a prompt and it doesn't mention DOS, then it might be a Linux command prompt. I know jack about this, but Slax should walk you through the steps to get to a GUI, it's a nice Live CD, I use it quite a bit.

[psychokiller]

hmm i used Slax b4

i can remember that i should have entered somethin like root and toor for username and password then type startX and it was mentioned allready

(this is if it was the Slax CD Burnt Correctly and it's the Linux Shell or CommandPrompt)

[VaKo]

root

toor

startx

[Deveant]

isnt backtrack built over slax? (sorry for off topic)

edit: re-read mabye i can help, is the CD actualy loading or is it starting to then erroring? do u get any messages?

[psychokiller]

yess sure it is.