Ive been a globe tattoo user almost two years and so far it is almost good. The second line adds a partition of type freebsdzfs note this will actually later be formatted as a geli container with the gpt partition label zstore, 4kb sector alignment beginning 1mb into the disk. Bruce byfield eight years ago, applixware was one of the premier office suites for unixlike systems. Its free, and one of the best books available on administrating linux. After reading this book, you should be prepared to use slackware linux for your daily work, and more than that. If you prefer to use grub instead, you can easily find it in the extra directory on one of your slackware cds. In any case, without knowing exactly which parameters you entered for elilo at install time, it is hard to know what went wrong. A collection of books, howtos and documentation on gnulinux for offline use february 09, 2006 posted by ravi i f i am asked which is one of the most important strengths of gnulinux, then i would tell you that it is the documentation. The mbr partition table was set up with the protective entry that is normal with gpt. I have successfully installed slackware and lilo, but i have had great difficult attempting to the unix and linux forums. Passed to a subsidiary of applix called vistasource that later became independent, applixware was repositioned as a combination of a basic office package and. Linux experience, and covers the slackware linux installation, basic gnulinux commands and the configuration of slackware linux. This web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads. This website is the home of the revised slackware book project the project.
They are broken up into sections so that you can more quickly look up your question and find an answer for it. How do i install slackware on a encrypted root partition. Smartbro on slackware linux lysenders daily log book. Jul 16, 2010 developed in 1993 as one of the first gnulinux distributions, slackware has finetuned many of its features in the latest version. Their download page also provides a vmware appliance for people who wish to run the software in a virtual machine. Ive started my installation, created gpt with efi partition and 2 partition for raid type fd00. Numerous linux distributions are available, each containing the linux kernel, a variety of installation and application programs, and other customized features. But it reported that there were no partitions when the disk did have about 10 partitions in the gpt partition table.
To begin the installation, assuming you are using a vmware product. If you truly want to become an expert, consider reading the the rute book. We have several faqs that you can use to answer your questions. All done, you can now umount filesystems and reboot to your new slackware installation. You may also want to buy a printed copy, in that case please visit the slackware store.
If you want to be able to read it online, you may want to visit the slackbook website. This is my first slackware installation on uefi but not the first with other distro on the same machine centos 7 with raid mirror my installation include raid software mirror. Just recently, dugan shared how he optimized fonts for slackware 14. Lilo lilo is the linux loader and is currently the default boot loader installed with slackware linux.
Im installing it now under a laptop with gpt partitions. Hopefully this book is useful as a reference to more experienced slackware linux users as well. How i do my partitioning in slackware the linux critic. Im going to replace my old pc, and the new motherboard wontt have a traditional bios but uses uefi boot mode.
Heres a quick guide on how to install slackware 10. Slackware overview slackware linux is a complete multitasking unixlike system available in both 32bit and 64bit versions. If you want to install grub immediately after install and before restarting, below is a simple method that assumes you use traditional bios and mbr partitioning if you plan to use gpt instead of mbr partitioning, refer to grub 2 with gpt and a bios. Oct 16, 2015 the first line creates a gpt paritioning scheme.
The installer handles gpt fine, so make your partitions using cgdisk. Ive read that elilo is a version of lilo that is intended to work better with gpt. Setting up grub 2 on install without rebooting there is grub in a series of slackware 14. Using gpt allows you to install slackware onto very large disk drives the theoretical maximum addressable disk size is 2 zib. As books on the use and administration of slackware go, slackware linux basics is the next one to read. Oct 18, 2017 slackware64 in virtualbox with uefi leave a comment posted by andrew jones on 20171018 after years of resisting the bios successor, uefi, a nifty little bit of hardware i recently purchased has left me with no alternative but to finally figure out how the darned thing works. Theres the quick guide to get slack working with lvmpartitions. Installing slackware using gpt with a bios motherboard it is possible to install slackware to a disk that uses a guid partition table gpt, even on a machine that uses bios i. While slackware does aim to maintain its traditional unix roots and values, there is no escaping progress. Sbopkg is a commandline and dialogbased tool to synchronize with the sbo repository, a collection of thirdparty slackbuild scripts to build slackware packages. Jun 14, 2009 one linux topic on which everybody seems to have an opinion is partitioning. I found some info about it online, but i would like to be sure before actually buying the components for my new pc.
I cant answer the lilo not appearing part, although you dont want lilo if you are using gpt partitions, you need elilo instead. Slackware linux may be one of the oldest surviving linux distributions but its still regularly updated and includes the latest releases of many of the most popular free software programs. Some of the earliest distributions, such as debian, red hat, and slackware, have spawned the development of multiple derivative distributions. Web interface to slackware related git repositories. It is possible to install slackware to a disk that uses a guid partition table gpt, even on a machine that uses bios i. Before, font optimization techniques were originally created by infinality but support for slackware stops sometime after the slackware 14. It has been a long time since i installed slackware on anything but vms. I first installed slackware with the drive in hdd1 slot, then once i got a caddy for hdd2, i reconnected the slackware drive to the hdd2 slot. Sbopkg is actively maintained and a new version is released one or more times per slackware sbo release. Linux kernel options for uefi and elilo the purpose of this article is to inform the user about necessary kernel options for booting from uefi, and some info about how elilo and perhaps other efi bootloaders work, as this is currently difficult to find and understand online.
Are you affiliated with andor endorsed by slackware. I need to use a gpt partition table and tried installing slackware 64. It will need to have a uefi system partition as a bare minimum. I will describe as best as possible the path i had to do with this installation. Is there a way to boot slackware from hdd2 my system is a dell studio laptop without reinstalling. It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menudriven package system. If i remember from reading the various docs that come with slackware, lilo doesnt always work with a gpt system, so it looks like you got lucky. Nov 08, 20 while slackware is one of the oldest linux distributions around, with its design on stability and simplicity it hasnt always been quick to adopt new features and functionality. If youve used other linux distributions before, you may be more familiar with grub. Its pretty rough so it might contain some errors in it. If you are installing slackware for real, make sure that you have dedicated the necessary space on your hard disk for the installation it can be an existing partition or some free space. The official guide to slackware linux, the slackware linux essentials, has been recently revised. Initially i had to overcome the issue that using dd to create the usb stick for installation was not booting from the pendrive. I use mbr so anything im saying in the preceding paragraph is theoretical, not actually tried by myself.
A collection of books, howtos and documentation on gnulinux. I store lilo into slackware root partition and use windows boot manager for booting. Installing slackware using gpt with a bios motherboard. Recently i have been trying to boot into slackware on a new laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8. Then sun microsystems began promoting staroffice aggressively, and koffice and gnome office started maturing. The purpose of this article is to inform the user about necessary kernel options for booting from uefi, and some info about how elilo and perhaps other efi bootloaders work, as this is currently difficult to find and understand online. As always, partitioning should be done prior to starting the setup script, however you must use a gpt aware partitioning tool, e.
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