Slackware Only Detects One Core Out Of A Core 2 Duo Processor

Hi, I'm a newbie. I've moved from windows 8.1 to Slackware a coupe days. They said If I want to know deeper about computer, I have to use one of Linux distro. So Slackware is very basic, that's why I try it. I used use Ubuntu a few time before but Slackware which it's harder. I begin search in the internet about driving the distro.

My language is not English. I used Lingoes in Windows. Now I'm lookin for same one. I need a help for downloading, installing software, maybe step by step because I don't have much experience at Linux in common.

I have dual-boot configuration, Windows and Linux Mint. I would like to replace Mint with Slackware. Problem is, Mint installed GRUB and Slackware uses LILO. At the moment I don't have second computer so I can't use help of internet if anything goes wrong, so I need first to make sure I know what to do.
Do I just proceed with installing Slackware and LILO will overwrite GRUB? Or how do I do it?

Again my friends I am having trouble,
Have Toshiba Tecra 64-bit 500gb disk 4gb ram running Windows 7 professional it has Intel core i5 processor.
I burned iso file of DVD LinuxMint Rebecca Cinnamon to DVD.
When I restart the system with the DVD inserted it immediately opens in Windows 7.
Then I pressed F1 to change the boot order to USB ODD.
Then I re-started several times to no avail.
When I press F1 to select the boot device it only gives me the Windows 7 option.
I know the disk is good because I checked the files it should contain and they are there.
Help from anyone is greatly appreciated.
Best regards to all of you.

I was looking into Slackware because a very talented teaching assistant at my school uses Slackware

And when we asked our UNIX professor for a recommendation on distro he recommended Ubuntu, and if we google around for five minutes we all can see that Ubuntu is the most popular distro.

I tried Mint and it was fast, smooth and a sweet pleasure.

I am not worried about screwing things up on my laptop, which already has Windows 8 and some important data, because if something goes wrong and my laptop can't even start, I can run Knoppix in USB stick to log on.

Any important tips for Linux rookies?

my hp a6300f home prem. vista desktop windows crashed it went to black screen it was due to virus and i recieved message from when trying to recovery from cd that unititialized/corrupt hhd biodh -4 but when i put in windows it did try to load but halted so tried fedora 5 and it took disk but needed something and was not sure what that was. i have (2048)-2 memory dual core intel processor its award phoenix bios nividia card 500gb 800hz cpu 2.0 ghz cash ram 1024 any help would be much appreciated thank you

Hi I am trying to set up my wifi on my new slackware distro.

How can I tell if my network card has been recognized? I ran
"ifconfig wlan0"

and it says there is no such device. What do I do to set up wlan0?

hp desktop pavilion win vista home prem. intel (r) dual quad processor 2.0 ghz speed 800hz 500gb 1024 cash memory 2048 memory pata controller sata contoller onboard lan onboard lan boot rom onvoard 1394 onboard audio nividia pheonix award bios cmos setup utility
the windows crashed due to virus it did a fix disk self check on its own and started deleting files before i could stop it i had just come home, i would like to install fedore core 5 to get it up and running it hangs with windows disks stops with fedora and gives a panic cpu and acpi issues says timer not sure what its asking me to change the other problem is my cd/dvd light scribe is not correct it does work but it is set for achi which is not right. any ideas would be welcome. thank you.

Dear Everyone,

I seem to have blown it when I first installed my OS.

All the updating messages when I run Muon's software
updates keep saying AMD and AMD64, and other things
that make me think my kernel and libs are confused as
to what processor I have.

What the sticker on the front plate of this Lenovo
V570 says it has, to quote exactly, is an "Intel
Inside(tm) CORE(tm)i5". In the bad old days of Linux
1.0, we would have to recompile the kernel, a prospect
not for the faint of heart.

I was hoping there would be something simpler that you
young whipper-snappers do nowadays.

Old Newbie,
Nerodog.

Hi, I am new in Slackware. I installed it with KDE.
When I am starting the system this appears:
http://oi60.tinypic.com/20f7qkl.jpg

But there is a good new. When I run "aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" (A command that I found surfing in Internet) The pc give me sound.


In no other way I have sound. What can I do? Thanks a lot

Sorry for my basic english

I have tried installing the newest version on Kali Linux on my laptop. I have these specs...

Lenovo S510p (touch)

Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM) i3
RAM-6GB
System Type-64-bit, x64 based OS

Windows 8.1

It gives me errors with the kernels, ive tried i686 i486 i386, it wont start when I usb unstall 64 amd version, it starts with i386 but the kernel wont run the persistent setup because it gives me an error message about the kernel. i486 just worked all weird on my laptop. Any links or step by step guides to the BEST methods of installing the write version for persistent mode, any info on MAIN things to upgrade right away from the command box like audio, graphics, add-on tools, updates etc... im trying to get all that before I head out of town in less the 48 hours with little time to be online for the moment. Id greatly appreciate your responses.....