Hi,

A few questions as I haven't installed slackware since v 10.0

I bought a Dell E520. No floppy drive and one is specified in the minimum
requirements for Slackware 11. Can I not just install from a cd? I do
have a floppy drive or two salvaged from old computers if I really do need
one.

How many cds do I need, 4 or 6? 4 is specified on the slackware site but
there are 6 in the distribution available on the mirror.

I want to burn the cds on my mac powerbook. Are there any gotchas in
doing that?

Any recommendations for partitions - moving from 15Gb to 250 is a big
jump. The pc is mainly a web, mail, ssh server although I do sit at it
occasionally. I might use it more now I've got a 19" screen. I might put
asterisk on it for voip as well. Basically one main user, another having
mail and just a couple more for my sons to use remotely should they so
desire.


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Alan Clifford (sardines@purse-seine.net) writes:
> Hi,
>
> A few questions as I haven't installed slackware since v 10.0
>
> I bought a Dell E520. No floppy drive and one is specified in the minimum
> requirements for Slackware 11. Can I not just install from a cd? I do
> have a floppy drive or two salvaged from old computers if I really do need
> one.
>
I'm running 10.0 and I didn't need a floppy drive to install it. Same when
I put 10.2 on a secondary partition, and I can't see that changing the
later the version.

If you don't have a floppy drive, you don't have the option of making a boot
floppy, for emergencies or even because you are hesitant about the install.
If you have a floppy drive, you can boot from it and then you don't have
to put some sort of boot mechanism on the hard drive (which is no big
deal, but even now the documentation/installer seems to suggest it might
be a problem).

I sure don't remember a need for a floppy drive otherwise. So long as
your computer can boot from the CDROM, the install can go straight from
there.


> How many cds do I need, 4 or 6? 4 is specified on the slackware site but
> there are 6 in the distribution available on the mirror.
>
I don't know. Figure out which ones are the source code, and don't bother
with them unless you need the source code.

> I want to burn the cds on my mac powerbook. Are there any gotchas in
> doing that?
>
> Any recommendations for partitions - moving from 15Gb to 250 is a big
> jump. The pc is mainly a web, mail, ssh server although I do sit at it
> occasionally. I might use it more now I've got a 19" screen. I might put
> asterisk on it for voip as well. Basically one main user, another having
> mail and just a couple more for my sons to use remotely should they so
> desire.
>
The issue of partitioning comes up all the time. It hasn't changed since
the last time someone asked, so whatever consenses came up then still
applies. But of course, there was no consensus, it always runs from
"just use one big partition" through "be sure to use a separate partition
for /home" through "partition what you need now, and leave the rest empty
for expansion later" to "yes, most definitely use separate partitions
for most of the main directories". I believe that covers it.

Michael

Alan Clifford <sardines@purse-seine.net> writes:

> A few questions as I haven't installed slackware since v 10.0
>
> I bought a Dell E520. No floppy drive and one is specified in the
> minimum requirements for Slackware 11. Can I not just install from a
> cd?

Yes!


> I do have a floppy drive or two salvaged from old computers if I really
> do need one.

You don't!



> How many cds do I need, 4 or 6? 4 is specified on the slackware site
> but there are 6 in the distribution available on the mirror.

If you have a fast connection, get 'em all!

> I want to burn the cds on my mac powerbook. Are there any gotchas in
> doing that?

Never played with one of those.

> Any recommendations for partitions - moving from 15Gb to 250 is a big
> jump.

Give yourself a biggish, separate /home partition; I just stick the rest
on /, but <prediction>the experts will soon pipe up on this
one</prediction> - this topic always get's 'em going!

> I might use it more now I've got a 19" screen.

Envy envy .....

atb


Glyn
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Alan Clifford wrote :

> Can I not just install from a cd? I do have a floppy drive or two
> salvaged from old computers if I really do need one.

CD 1 is bootable so boot from this CD and start the installation from
here.

> How many cds do I need, 4 or 6? 4 is specified on the slackware site
> but there are 6 in the distribution available on the mirror.

CD 1-3 are install disks and CD 4-6 are source disks except from /testing
which is found on CD-4. So if you decide to use the test26.s kernel
you'll need CD-4 because the modules-package for this kernel is located in
/extra.
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Glyn Millington wrote:

> Envy envy .....

With your job you should know better!
--
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"...hit the squirrel..."

Two Ravens <two-ravens@operamail.com> writes:

> Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>> Envy envy .....
>
> With your job you should know better!

Oh I *know* better :-)

atb



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JFGI http://jfgi.us/

> Any recommendations for partitions - moving from 15Gb to 250 is a big
> jump. The pc is mainly a web, mail, ssh server although I do sit at it
> occasionally. I might use it more now I've got a 19" screen. I might put
> asterisk on it for voip as well. Basically one main user, another having
> mail and just a couple more for my sons to use remotely should they so
> desire.

All you really need to do those things is disk 1, and disk 2 if you want
the KDE desktop sometime. As for partitions, One is fine, any more makes
it more complex. If you decide you want to stash a bunch of files to be
available for others on your network to access, you might want to consider
a seperate /home directory for that. It will allow you to upgrade your
install in the future so you desire, or even switch to a differrent distro
and not have to re-load those files.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:27:32 +0000, Alan Clifford wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> A few questions as I haven't installed slackware since v 10.0
>
> I bought a Dell E520. No floppy drive and one is specified in the minimum
> requirements for Slackware 11. Can I not just install from a cd? I do
> have a floppy drive or two salvaged from old computers if I really do need
> one.
>
> How many cds do I need, 4 or 6? 4 is specified on the slackware site but
> there are 6 in the distribution available on the mirror.
>
> I want to burn the cds on my mac powerbook. Are there any gotchas in
> doing that?
>
> Any recommendations for partitions - moving from 15Gb to 250 is a big
> jump. The pc is mainly a web, mail, ssh server although I do sit at it
> occasionally. I might use it more now I've got a 19" screen. I might put
> asterisk on it for voip as well. Basically one main user, another having
> mail and just a couple more for my sons to use remotely should they so
> desire.

FWIW - one of the attractions I see to installing say Elive or (K)Ubuntu
is the installation from a single CD.

I would carve the hard drive up into chunks of about 10-20 gb each - makes
it easier to backup or recover when the drive dies.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Alan Clifford wrote:

AC> A few questions as I haven't installed slackware since v 10.0
AC>
AC> I bought a Dell E520. No floppy drive and one is specified in the minimum
AC> requirements for Slackware 11. Can I not just install from a cd? I do have
AC> a floppy drive or two salvaged from old computers if I really do need one.
AC>

later ...

Having problems with the network. lspci shows an ethernet controller as
as Intel 82562V 10/100

With some googling, I have determined that this seems to need the e100
module but modprobe e100 doesn't make eth0 appear in ifconfig -a

I have had to use the huge26.s kernal and have installed the kernel
modules for 2.16.17.13 and pointed /etc/rc.d/rc.modules at the
rc.modules-2.6.17.13

I have tried a new e100 from source forge, installed the kernel source and
did a make install for the new e100. This didn't cause eth0 to spring
into existence either.

Any suggestions?

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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:04:23 +0000, Alan Clifford <sardines@purse-seine.net> wrote:

>Having problems with the network. lspci shows an ethernet controller as
>as Intel 82562V 10/100
>
>With some googling, I have determined that this seems to need the e100
>module but modprobe e100 doesn't make eth0 appear in ifconfig -a

e100 is blacklisted by default, 'grep -rw e100 /etc' will show you
where to find it.

Grant.
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