(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); WARNING! THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT! IF YOU HAVE LITTLE/ NO KNOWLEDGE OF LINUX TERMINALS BE EXTRMELY CAREFULL AND DO NOT SKIP A STEP OR YOU WILL MESS SOMETHING UP! BE PATIENT!

Dont know what slackware is?

Taken directly from the official Slackware site, Which can be found using GOOGLE.
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Now, onto it

If you truly wish to learn more about Linux, this guide will certainly get you familiar with it and you'll come to love your Slack system. It teaches you everything about Linux along each step. The system makes other popular distros look like children's toys so take this as fair warning that it won't be easy at first.

[multipage=Skills Needed ]
I suggest you know your way around the Linux Terminal and have a lot of patience.
You'll be lucky if you get everything the way you want it right off the bat.

[multipage=What You'll Need ]

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• A single layer DVD or an 8+ GB USB Flash Drive
  
• [Optional]A bootable OS with Live CD (Ubuntu for example)
  
• Some free time and as stated above, some patience.
  

For people that are Dual Booting view spoiler:

This is where you'll need that Live CD. Boot into your Live CD and create a 1 GB partition formatted as EXT2. This will be for your bootloader. Now then, if you're using Ubuntu, we'll be installing BURG. If you wish to use LILO (the default Slack loader) then skip this and I'll get onto that later down the line.
Got to You must login or register to view this content. and follow the directions for the version of your Live CD of Ubuntu. Once BURG is installed, open a Terminal and type type the following;

    sudo -s

fdisk -l

This will take you to the root shell then list your partitions. The partition that you'll be using for your bootloader is the smallest one (unless you have one smaller like the system partition for Windows 7). When installing BURG earlier, it was installed to the Live CD and not your hard disk. To fix this, do the following;

    mkdir /mnt/mounted

mount /dev/*insert your bootloader partition* /mnt/mounted

burg-install --root-directory=/mnt/mounted /dev/sda

update-burg

[multipage=Getting Started ]

In this guide, I formatted my entire hard drive for the installation of Slackware. If you don't wish to do this, create a separate partition for Slack using any partitioning tool of your choice. Slack comes with a console based one by default. At the boot prompt, just hit enter then at the login type root and hit enter. After that, type this:

    cfdisk

Here you can manage your partitions. Make sure to set it as bootable. After you're done with that, write it, exit, then type setup and hit enter. It'll ask you for your keymap and all that jazz. If you don't know how to make a SWAP, you probably don't need it and it isn't necessary on most modern computers (the laptop I have Slack on is roughly 5 years old).

This will take you to the initial process of installing Slackware. This is generally easy to follow. Go to TARGET and select the partition where you wish to install Slack. Make sure to format it (EXT2 works just fine). If you have another OS partition that you wish to be able to access from within Slack, you can choose it here after choosing your installation location.

The next step is choosing the installation media. If you're using the DVD, this is pretty straight forward. If not, look below.

USB Installation Method Note: When asked where your installation media is located, choose a hard disk then point the installer to your flash drive. Depending on the BUS it's hooked to and how many drives are on that BUS determines it's location.

An Example:

    /dev/sdb1

/slackware

The installer will ask where the Slack packages are located. Just type /slackware and continue.

When you come to it, install all packages and be sure to do a full installation. Otherwise you'll be sitting there for hours confirming what it tries to install. After that's finished, you'll be prompted to make a rescue disk. This isn't necessary if you plan on keeping your installation disc/USB. After that, you'll be prompted to install LILO. Now then, if you're going to use BURG as your loader, don't do this. Follow the steps in the spoiler above. If you are going to use LILO, choose the expert method. Choose "begin". If you don't know what kernel parameters are, you probably don't need them and you can just hit enter to skip this. For the video mode, choose a reasonable resolution and refresh rate that your monitor can handle. Be sure to install LILO to root. After this, choose the partitions you wish to add to LILO. This is pretty simple. After that, install LILO. If you mess this up, you can always come back and run this:

    liloconfig

After that is done, choose your mouse type. When asked to configure your network, skip this. For your WM, it's all up to you. If you want a pretty interface, I suggest KDE. I went with FluxBox. If you wanna change this later, just run this as root.

    xwmconfig

Now then, your system is installed. We're not finished yet though.

[multipage=Configuring Your Install ]

Reboot once again with your installation media. At the boot prompt, type this:

    huge.s root=/dev/sda* rdinit= ro

Replace the asterisk with the number of your Slack partition. Welcome to Slackware and the beauty that is the Linux Terminal! Not all you expected, huh? Well we're not done yet. Login as root with the password that you created for root at the beginning. After doing that, type this:

    adduser

Follow the guide on adding your account. This is fairly easy and straight forward. After this is done, you'll need to add yourself to sudo. Why? Because Slack doesn't do this automatically.

Still logged in as root, run this:

    visudo

This will bring you to the sudo configuration. Browse with your arrow keys down until it says this:

    root ALL=(ALL) ALL[code]



Right below that hit "i" on your keyboard and enter your username with ALL=(ALL) ALL after that. Hit escape then type :wq and hit enter.



Now we need to configure your kernel. This is really easy. While logged in as root, run this:



[code]/usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh

The line that it spits out is what you need to type in. As a little gift, a full featured Linux Terminal come with a cursor. Isn't that nice? Just highlight that line and right click it. It'll paste it for you into your console so all you have to do is hit enter. Congrats! You are now the proud user of Slackware. To go to your desktop, logout of root by typing "exit" in your Terminal. Login as yourself then type "startx".

[multipage=Configuring BURG ]

This process is only for those that used BURG as their bootloader. Run this in your terminal as root.

    mkdir /mnt/mounted

fdisk -l

mount /dev/sda*insert your BURG partition here* /mnt/mounted

nano /mnt/mounted/boot/burg/burg.cfg

Add this at the bottom after "### END /etc/burg.d/00_header ###"

    menuentry 'Slackware' --class slackware --class gnu-linux

        insmod *replace with the partition type of your Slack partition*

        set root='(hd0,msdos*replace with the number of your Slack partition*)'

        search --no-floppy

        echo    'Loading Slackware ...'

        linux   /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/*replace with your Slack partition* ro quiet

        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'

        initrd  /boot/initrd.gz

}

[multipage=Notes ]

If you want to boot with a graphical interface instead of the CLI one, run this.

    sudo nano /etc/inittab

Change the 3 after "# Default runlevel" to 4. CTRL+X, save changes, then reboot.

If you are on a laptop and use WiFi, insert your installer and do this as root.

    sudo mount /dev/*installation media location* /mnt/mounted

sudo installpkg /mnt/mounted/extra/wicd/wicd*.t?z

[multipage=Installing Software ]

Please note that Slack does not come with a package manager by default like most other distros. A great place to get software is You must login or register to view this content.. If you want a package manager, there are many to choose from You must login or register to view this content..

To use a Slackbuild, download the SB and the source for your architecture. After that, extract the archive for the SB to a new folder. Place the source in that folder the run the SB as root through a Terminal.

    sudo -s

cd *location of the SB folder*

./name.SlackBuild

[multipage=Closing ]

Have fun with this guys. Like I said, it's a great learning experience if you're really interested in Learning how Linux works. If you have any problems, use google, i am too busy with the opening of the linux section, school, ecams, and work, maybe after i can help but not at the moment.

Some of this thread, mstly codes are copys from other threads, because i did not have all codes (for example i didnt dual boot so i needed them) i found multiple tutorials and used some information from each, i in no way intend to "leech".

Would be a nice TUT if you would let us know what SLACK is at the start..

if you dont know what slack is, dont even bother trying thats the point. google it if you dont know

This is the kinda shit that pisses me off. "google it if you dont know" and "if you dont know what slack is, dont even bother trying thats the point". So what if someone doesn't know what it is tell them that's why you make tuts

installing slack is one of the hardest, and a very long process, installs on linux, thats why i say if you dont know what it is dont try it

If you guys don't know what slackware it, use google. You can learn by yourself because you probably don't know what linux or its many versions even are. Hawk's not being a douche, he just doesn't want to have to babbysit and explain every little thing. He took a lot of time to teach us how to install something that is very difficult to understand, he obviously doesn't have the time to go over every little thing.

I, personally, have been looking to install this for a long time but have had no clue as to where I should start.

i will personally help you step by step, because you realized what i go through >.< lmao. PM if you need anything