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Minimal Slackware installation for network appliance or virtual machine

Posted 05-08-2022 at 06:57 AM by rkelsen
Updated 09-22-2023 at 11:10 PM by rkelsen

I'm not really in favour of doing less than a full installation of Slackware, because it really isn't designed to be installed this way. This is offered completely without warranty. I'm not responsible for you breaking your system if you try this.

With that out of the way, I got a basic installation of Slackware64-15.0 with networking, ssh and ntp in 315Mb.

These are the required 59 packages:

Code:
a/aaa_base
a/aaa_glibc-solibs
a/aaa_libraries
...
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Setting up a Slackware64-15.0 virtual machine on VMware ESXi 8.0.0

Posted 02-22-2022 at 03:57 AM by rkelsen
Updated 10-21-2023 at 07:48 AM by rkelsen

Log into VMware web console
- Virtual Machines -> Create/Register VM
- Create new virtual machine
- Name your VM
- Compatibility: ESXi 8.0 VM
- Family: Linux
- Other 5.x Linux 64 bit
- number of CPUs = 4
- Memory 8192 Mb
- HD 50Gb
- SCSI controller = LSI Logic SAS = This is temporarily necessary to allow the installer to boot.
- Video card = 16Mb video memory
- VM Options -> Boot options -> untick UEFI secure...
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Slackware64 UEFI USB boot stick for installation

Posted 02-16-2022 at 10:32 PM by rkelsen
Updated 09-29-2023 at 02:28 AM by rkelsen

The steps to making a UEFI USB boot stick are as follows:

1. Backup everything on the USB stick. All data on it will be deleted by following this procedure.
2. Using gdisk, delete all existing partitions.
3. Still in gdisk, create a partition 100 to 300 Mb in size.
4. Partition the rest of the space as you desire. (I'd probably make it all one partition).
5. Set the partition type of the first partition to "EFI System partition." (code EF00)...
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Corel Linux in a VM on Slackware64

Posted 06-17-2021 at 05:51 AM by rkelsen
Updated 09-22-2023 at 11:08 PM by rkelsen

The steps to get Corel Linux working in a QEMU virtual machine are:

Step 1. Download the source code for QEMU from their website.

Step 2. Extract & compile.

Compiling QEMU is simply a matter of: $ ./configure && make
su to the root account, and:
# make install

(This will install QEMU under /usr/local. You might prefer a different method, but this works for me.)

Step 3. Now that QEMU is installed, we can create...
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StarCraft (1998 version) on Slackware64

Posted 06-14-2021 at 02:03 AM by rkelsen
Updated 09-22-2023 at 11:07 PM by rkelsen

This requires a working installation of Wine.

Step 1. Mount the StarCraft CDROM
Step 2. $ wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
Step 3. Exit installer. Do not click on Play Starcraft at this point - you'll be disappointed with the results.
Step 4. Copy /mnt/cdrom/install.exe to /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Starcraft/StarCraft.mpq
Step 5. Umount & eject the CDROM
Step 6. Obtain the v1.16.1 (last official) patch from Blizzard: http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/starcraf...PC/SC-1161.exe...
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