[clug] Slackware Install Talk - Did anyone take notes or record it?

[Owen]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:45:31 +1000
"BAXTER,Adam" <adam.baxter at deewr.gov.au> wrote:

> * Install is completely text based
> * Completely customisable
> * Full install uses 4.8gb but there are other versions of slackware
> that can go under 1gb.
> * Installer will not stop you messing up your system!
> * Slackware 13 uses KDE4.2, Slackware 12 uses KDE3.5
> * Packages are simple tar.gz with a script. See www.slacky.eu and
> http://slackbuilds.org/ for more
> * Use rpm2tgz to convert Red Hat packages to Slackware.
> Not sure if I missed anything.


Well I just installed the latest BlueWhite64 Linux13.0 onto a dual
core machine (AMD 5200) from a 4.2 GByte dvd I downloaded.

It took about 20 minutes and I am glad I attended the meeting otherwise
it might never have been installed

I skipped lilo and did a usb stick instead, but that *didn't work*

So I modified my working menu.lst (found out you don't need an initrd)

Rebooted, startx and kde4 bloomed into life on my Phillips lcd
monitor. Nothing to do!

Compared to my Ubuntu-9.04, the programs I use seem to fire up very
fast. Maybe that is because the distro is specifically built for this
cpu

I am at the bottom end of the learning curve on how to use kde and
slackware, so early days yet.

#ldd /usr/bin/program|fgrep found   was brilliant (if that was the
correct command). Thanks to the person that put that up and thanks for
the talk.




Owen