Since every computer is different, we can't offer instructions on how to do this, but the method is simple on nearly all machines. Once your computer boots from the CD you'll be taken to a screen that allows you to enter any special kernel parameters. This is here primarily to allow you to use the installer as a sort of rescue disk. Some systems may need special kernel parameters in order to boot, but these are very rare exceptions to the norm.
Most users can simply press enter to let the kernel boot. You should see a lot of text go flying across your screen. Don't be alarmed, this is all perfectly normal. The text you see is generated by the kernel during boot-up as it discovers your hardware and prepares to load the operating system in this case, the installer. You can later read these messages with the dmesg 1 command if you're interested.
Often these messages are very important for troubleshooting any hardware problems you may have. Once the kernel has completed its hardware discovery, the messages should stop and you'll be given an option to load support for non-us keyboards. Simply select the mapping that matches your keyboard type and continue on. Unlike other Linux distributions which boot you directly into a dedicated installer program, Slackware's installer drops you into a limited Linux distribution loaded into your system's RAM.
This limited distribution is then used to run all the installation programs manually, or can be used in emergencies to fix a broken system that fails to boot. Now that you're logged in as root there is no password within the installer it's time to start setting up your disks. At this point, you may setup software RAID or LVM support if you wish or even an encrypted root partition, but those topics are outside of the scope of this book.
TXT files on your CD if you desire to setup your system with these advanced tools. Most users won't have any need to do so and should proceed directly to partitioning. The Slackware installation media comes with tools to partition a hard drive.
Usually partitioning a hard disk process is composed of these steps:. Using fdisk to partition a hard drive is done by following the following steps. The partition table can be created differently, this is only an example:. This is a very simple partition table, naturally fdisk supports the creation of mixed logical and physical partitions.
If you've never installed Slackware before, you can get a very basic over-view of the Slackware installer by reading the Help menu. Most of the information here is on navigating through the installer which should be fairly intuitive, but if you've never used a curses-based program before you may find this useful. Before we go any further, Slackware gives you the opportunity to select a different mapping for your keyboard.
If you're using a standard US keyboard you can safely skip this step, but if you're using an international keyboard you will want to select the correct mapping now. This ensures that the keys you press on your keyboard will do exactly what you expect them to do. If you created a swap partition, this step will allow you to enable it before running any memory-intensive activities like installing packages.
It's a hard drive partition or a file, though Slackware's installer does not support swap files where regions of active system memory get copied when your computer is out of useable RAM. Our next step is selecting our root partition and any other partitions we'd like Slackware to utilize. You'll be given a choice of filesystems to use and whether or not to format the partition. If you're installing to a new partition you must format it.
If you have a partition with data on it you'd like to save, don't. This lets them install newer versions of Slackware without having to backup and restore this data.
Here you'll tell the installer where to find the Slackware packages. If you have your packages installed to a partition that you setup in the previous step, you can install from that partition or a pre-mounted directory.
You may need to mount that partition with mount 8 first. See chapter 11 for more details. We're only going to discuss installation from the DVD, but other methods are similar and straightforward. One unique feature of Slackware is its manner of dividing packages into disksets.
At the beginning of time, network access to FTP servers was available only through incredibly slow baud modems, so Slackware was split into disk sets that would fit onto floppy disks so users could download and install only those packages they were interested in.
Today that practice continues and the installer allows you to chose which sets to install. This allows you to easily skip packages you may not want, such as X and KDE on headless servers or Emacs on everything. Slackware Release Announcement. Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version We are sure you'll agree that the improvements made in this release more than warrant the major version bump up from the We've done our best to bring the latest technology to Slackware while still maintaining the stability and security that you have come to expect.
Slackware is well known for it's simplicity and the fact that we try to bring software to you in the condition that the authors intended. Probably the biggest change is the addition of an official bit port. We know that many of you have been waiting eagerly for this, and once you try it you'll see it was well worth the wait.
Slackware We continue to make use of HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer which allows the system administrator to grant use of various hardware devices according to users' group membership so that they will be able to use items such as USB flash sticks, USB cameras that appear like USB storage, portable hard drives, CD and DVD media, MP3 players, and more, all without requiring sudo, the mount or umount command.
Just plug and play. These add some basic functionality to the keys. For more advanced functionality you will have to create your own scripts. To your windows manager startup file. This version of Slackware has the latest version of lmsensors.
This version is not currently supported by cpufreqd, a daemon that has been used with previous Slackware versions for handling CPU frequency scaling. Install cpufrequtils. With the cpufreq-set and cpufreq-info one may set the cpu speed as well as the governors for the cpu speed. The possible governors include: performance, ondemand, conservative, powersave and userspace you set the speed manually.
Further Exploration. Upgrading the System. While Slackware is mostly free and open-source software, it does not have a formal bug tracking facility or public code repository, with releases periodically announced by Volkerding.
Slackware Slackware-Current cleanly install or upgrade your installation to the latest stable version first, following the instructions and information in the appropriate UPGRADE. Slackware aims for design stability and simplicity and to be the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution. It makes as few modifications as possible to software packages from upstream and tries not to anticipate use cases or preclude user decisions.
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