Re: [TCLUG:12209] Sisyphus (was: [Re:hello])

[Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

> My favorite way of installing Slackware:
> 1) Diagnose and fix bad fdd cable in computer (2 hours because I'm an
> idiot...)
> 2) spend hours trying to burn a good, bootable CD and finally give up
> and setup an NFS export on another machine
> 3) finally boot the boot/root disk
> 3.5) reboot with net.i so I can actually mount the NFS-exported
> directory
> 3.7) reboot with scsinet.s because I "forgot" about my scsi HDD
> 4) login, type setup
> 5) get evil curses thiny (curses!  It's curses.)
> 6) Select groups of packages that I'm interested in
> 7) Select individual packages from stupid menus
> 8) go through the configure dialog
> 9) accidentally choose to try out some custom fonts, and get stuck with
> something that doesn't look good in curses
> 10) reboot with my working system, go back and run setup again to
> install the packages that I always forget I need (groff for man...grrr)
> 11) Spill Mtn. Dew on the keyboard AT LEAST once to christen the machine
> 12) Spend hours getting X to work.
> 
I hope to God you don't go through this everytime.  Some ppl may get the
wrong impression of a Slack install from that...

Here's what I do:

1) Make and burn and iso image of Slackware with this command:

mkisofs -a -T -R -b bootdsks.144/.eltorito/eltorito.img -l -r -v -c bootdsks.144/.eltorito/boot.catalog -o slackware.iso -V "Slackware Linux 7.0" slakware/

2) Throw the CD in your box and boot from it.  Log in as root (with no passwd)
and partition with fdisk.

3) Type 'setup' to bring up the curses installation menu that Adam mentioned
(all it is is a little front end for the Slackware pkg manager, called pkgtool)

4) Follow the steps in order (add swap, format drives, etc, etc)
   In the Install Media step, you're going to want to pick expert (even if 
   you're not an expert).  It'll prompt you for each diskset to install and each
   package within each of those disksets...

5) Once everything is done, pull out the cdrom and reboot

6) Log in as root (you set the passwd in the installation) and create a new
   user with the 'adduser' command.

7) edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment everything out, that's right, everything.

8) cd /usr/src and download ssh source.  
8.33333) build ssh
8.66667) install ssh

9) run XF86Config (I hope you installed the xset.tgz and xvga16.tgz packages
   during install)

10) install anything you forgot.  To do this, put your Slack cdrom in your cdrom
    drive and mount it up...  cd /<cdrom mounted here>/
    type 'pkgtool' and it'll let you browse through the disk sets...

11) reboot

I've done this so many times (pretty much multiple times per each release of
slackware since 3.2) so I can get through it all in about 30 mins..

Gabe
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Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>       
U of MN Csci/IT Systems Staff
President - ACM @ U of MN

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