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Getting Slackware 12.0 installation media to boot on older BIOS

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:01:18 -0700

Slackware 12.0 installation media has trouble booting on older machines. I recently acquired a dual processor Pentium 266 (Tyan motherboard), but could not get the Slackware 12.0 installation media to boot. Other Linux versions, such as Fedora, SuSe, etc. all booted up fine.

Slackware General Configuration Notes

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:38:06 -0700

Setting up a DHCP server Edit /etc/dhcpd.conf: Change the values to reflect your own network, including the domain-name-servers and domain-name options. Add the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: This presumes that the network interface DCHP lease requests will be coming on is eth0.

Compiling the Slackware kernel

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:39:14 -0700

Here is a quick, step-by-step guide to compiling a new kernel under Slackware. These steps have been tested several times and work for me, but your mileage may vary. Take appropriate precautions...! * Get the latest kernel from * Move the linux-2.x.x.x.tar.bz2 to /usr/src * bzip2 -d linux-2.x.x.x.tar.bz2 * tar xvf linux-2.x.x.x.tar * cd linux-2.x.x.x * cp /usr/src/linux/.config /usr/src/linux-2.x.x.x * make oldconfig (To keep current kernel setup) * make …

Configuring Linux HA on Slackware

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:36:35 -0700

Summary This section details my efforts to set up an HA cluster for Apache webservers in Slackware. Setting up HA on Linux is covered in detail at Linux HA website. Hardware requirements For the simplest cluster, two servers are required. For the purposes of this exercise, the servers have hostnames of haserver1 and haserver2. Each server will need two network cards, one for regular traffic, and one dedicated to the heartbeat for the HA cluster.

Configuring RAID1 on Slackware 12.0

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:28:56 -0700

This article describes how to configure software RAID1 under Slackware 12.0. This presumes you are installing Slackware 12.0 in a new installation with two identical (or close to identical) capacity drives. This article does not discuss the Slackware installation process, and in fact presumes the reader is familar with it.

Useful Slackware Scripts

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:09:15 -0700

Slackware post-install setup script This is an excellent script I came across, which easily allows you to configure Slackware software packages normally found on a server. The code is below, but you can also find the latest version here. Check CPU speed Checks CPU speed and sets the governor to 'on demand'

Installing Slackware 11.0 on the IBM Thinkpad 600E

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:09:15 -0700

Introduction Installing Slackware 10.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 600E was a relatively simple task. As you will see here, doing both an upgrade and a clean installation of Slackware 11.0 to an IBM Thinkpad 600E isn’t any more difficult. First we will discuss the process to upgrade a Slackware 10.2 installation to Slackware 11.0. Thanks to instructions written by Slackware creator Patrick Volkerding (contained in UPGRADE.TXT on the Slackware 11.0 distribution media), the process is suprisingly pain-…

Slackware

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:59:19 -0700

Slackware 12.0 * Configuring Slackware 12.0 on an IBM Thinkpad R31 * Configuring RAID1 on Slackware 12.0 * Configuring sudo * Getting Slackware 12.0 installation media to boot on older BIOS Slackware 11.0 & 10.2 * Slackware 10.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 600E

Configuring sudo

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:46:15 -0700

Normally if you want to run a command which requires root privileges you first have to type 'su -', type your root password and then type the command. However you can bypass this by using the 'sudo' command. But first you have to configure it like this:

Installing Slackware 10.2 on the IBM Thinkpad 600E

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:34:21 -0700

Introduction Getting Linux working on this particular laptop has been a challenge in the past. Various versions of RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake/Mandriva were all partially but not completely successful. A frequent problem was getting the sound working, and then later, wireless networking.

Configuring Slackware 12.0 on an IBM Thinkpad R31

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:31:50 -0700

Video The default xorg.conf file is set to use xorg.conf-vesa. Attempting to run startx will give you a nice rainbow color changing screen, and no X display. To fix it, copy xorg.conf-fbdev to xorg.conf. Then edit /etc/lilo.conf and look for the following: