I installed Slackware on My other Pc and I did everything correct. Lilo Runs and I select Linux it loads and then it goes onto a black screen saying: Welcome to Linux 2.4.31 (tty1) I made myself a User but that didnt help. How do i get to the real linux so i can get to the user interface and stuff? Thanks for the help.

he "real" linux, as you called it, is actually the text mode and the command interpretor that you detest. Anyway, to start the GUI just type "startx", But please do yourself a favour and run the gui oonly as a regular user and never as root! To boot directly in a graphical enviroment edit the file /etc/inittab and search for a line that contains the word "initdefault" and that isn't commented out. In that line between 2 colonswill be a number, in your case this will be 3. change it to 4 or 5 and save it. Read the file carefully and it will thell you the exact number that should be placed there. I't version-dependent. The next time you will reboot it will go automaticly into a GUI. As I can see you are a newbie so here is a bit of additional information: to edit that file type: "emacs /etc/inittab" make the changes to save it type: "Ctrl+x", "Ctrl+s" to exit the editor type: "Ctrl+x", "Ctrl+c" or use mc (started with "mc") if you've installed it at install time. You will know to work with it; It's similar to "Norton Commander" and the later "Total Commander". I wish you lunk with your new "linux career" and learn patient. You will have to learn a lot. Alex.

FYI Slackware uses runlevel 4 for a GUI as opposed to the more popular runlevel 5, so the line in /etc/inittab should read: id:4:initdefault: Just make sure that "startx" works before making the change....