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

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

Yeah, I had to re-install yesterday morning.  I got up at 7:30, and in
my boxers started the install (I had fixed the floppy the previous
night).  I woosed out and did full after I selected the groups of
packages...just because I wanted time to take a shower.  by 8:15 I had a
running system.  Gnome kept blowing up though...so I'm using wmaker
under X (IMHO, better than KDE).  My modem fades in and out of
existance...but my sparc is working!

The problems with the wrong bootdisks was actually because I dd'd the
wrong ones at work the night before...but I was smart enough to make a
set of scsinet, bare.i, and net.i...just in case, so I did have the
bootdisk on hand.  It's not nearly as painful as I made it out to
be...I've just been using color.gz too long - and it makes me dislike
curses every time I install.  

It's actually quite easy, and it was the first distro that I ever
installed and used on my own (Ben probably remembers my first slackware
install).  

Gabe Turner wrote:
> >
> 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
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>
> U of MN Csci/IT Systems Staff
> President - ACM @ U of MN
> 
> "Blood is life and it shall be all ours!" -Dimmu Borgir "The Night Masquerade"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe@mn-linux.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help@mn-linux.org

-- 
Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Internet Exposure, Inc.