Slackware Linux Configuration Notes
After the initial install of Linux, I am now configuring my install of Slackware Linux:
Slackware Linux Configuration Notes
Configure Info
The first screen prompt in this next process was to “Make USB Flash Boot”.
“If your computer supports booting from a USB device, it is recommended that you make a USB boot stick for your system at this time. It will boot your computer straight into the root filesystem on ‘/dev/sda2’.
“Please insert a USB flash memory stick and then press ENTER to create a boot stick. WARNING! The existing contents of the USB stick will be erased.”
The options are:
- Create–Make a USB Linux boot stick, or,
- Skip–Skip making a USB boot stick.
I used the same USB stick I had in the machine ( the one with the ISO image used the for the install). The next screen, (after hitting “Create”, said:
- “New Device Detected”
- “A new USB device ‘/dev/sdc’ was detected with specifications:
- Vendor:
- Model: USB Disk 2.0
- Size: 29604MB
- “If this is the USB stick to use, select ‘Yes’, otherwise select ‘No’.”
- I hit ‘Yes’. It said ‘Creating USB stick”, then “USB Boot Stick Created”
- “The USB boot stick has been successfully created on device /dev/sdc. If you would like to create an additional boot stick, please select ‘Create’ and we’ll go back & make another one, otherwise select ‘Continue’ to continue configuring your system.”
- I hit ‘Continue’, to continue the configuration.
Next, after creating my USB bootable stick, it brought me to: “INSTALL LILO” screen prompt.
“LILO (Linux Loader) is a generic boot loader. There’s a simple installation which tries to automatically set up LILO to boot Linux (also Windows it found). For more advanced users, the expert option offers more control over the installation process. Since LILO does not work in all cases (and can damage partitions if incorrectly installed), there’s the third (safe) option, which is to skip installing LILO for now. You can always install it later with the ‘liloconfig’ command. Which option would you like?”
- Simple–Try to install LILO automatically
- Expert–Use expert lilo.conf setup menu
- Skip–Do not install LILO
Note: The slackware docs (https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install) page said that, “Nearly everyone will need to setup the Linux Loader, LILO. LILO is in charge of booting the Linux kernel and connecting to an ‘initrd’ or the root filesystem. Without it (or some other boot loader), your new Slackware operating system will not boot. Slackware offers a few options here. The ‘simple’ method attempts to automatically configure LILO for your computer, and works well with very simple systems. If Slackware is the only operating system on your computer, it should configure and install LILO for you without any hassle. If you don’t trust the simpler method to work, or if you want to take an in-depth look at how to configure LILO, the “expert” method is really not all that complicated. This method will take you through each step and offer to set-up dual boot for Windows and other Linux operating systems. It also allows you to append kernel command parameters (most users will not need to specify any though). LILO is a very important part of your Slackware system, so an entire section of the next chapter is devoted to it. If you’re having difficulty configuring LILO at this stage, you may want to skip ahead and read Chapter 3 first, then return here.” (Chapter 3–https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:booting of Slackware Linux Essentials–https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:start).
From the previous step “Install LILO” screen prompt, I chose the ‘expert’ option.
The next screen it brought me to was:
“EXPERT LILO INSTALLATION”
See earlier:
Arch/Slackware Linux Install Notes
Sources:
