Installed Minimal Slack incl. dhcp/dhcpd but what to install to connect?
 

OK, several questions.
Installed Slack-12.2, DSL and TTYLinux to a VHD 1GB and can't update slackpkg's 'cause it says turn off CHECKGPG, which I did, and something
about installing gnugpg or something?
So, how to fix this?
And how to fix internet, as I have always on broadband and dhcp is usually what I use?

Other strange things, after installing I used Grub and to boot Slack and others successfully here's what I had to do to make the menu.lst-

I have slack on hda1, tty on hda2, and dsl on hda3.
If I tell slack "kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1"
It says "no setup image found" and won't boot??
If I use (hd0,1), which should be hda2(ttylinux), it boots into slack
and says "darkstar login:"

What's going on here?
Any help appreciated..
PortaSlack install is most of a, and others, comes up to 283MB
Installed-so how to get internet working and issues with
menu.lst
Thanks!

The first thing that strikes me is that we do not have anywhere near enough information to proceed with either of these. The second is that they would be better separated into two threads.

1) Portaslack/minimal slack we would have to know what packages are installed in able to find the ones that were missing.

2) Try putting the root on a separate line for example also you will need an initrd.gz if you are using the generic kernel.

samac

I have managed to get slack 12.1 down to about 120mb, it does take some trial and error to know which packages will work and ones that wont.

To get the internet to work you need to adjust the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file, look for this at the top of the script.

And change to

This will get the dhcp client to grab an ipaddress from your dhcp server.


The reason this is not working is, you have both entries pointing to the same kernel, /boot/vmlinuz. You should have different names for the different kernels. When you have copied the kernels over, the last kernel slackware, would have over-written the TTYLinux kernel being in the same directory, that's why you had to change the entry to (hd0,1)

Copy the TTYLinux kernel over using a different name, and then change it back to (hd0,0), and it should work.


You will need to have this installed so it can verify the packages, this also needs another package that contains the libraries for gnugpg to work, it maybe in the same /a directory, or it maybe under /ap directory

OK, thanks guys, but no dice...
I tried several options with this one and so I am re-installing to a different VHD
and try to dual boot with DSL and use lilo instead of Grub....maybe

I made a 1.8GB vhd and 3 partitions; hda1=slack, hda2=dsl, and a swap partition.
This time I installed alot + fluxbox and xfce.
Any pointers on adding dsl from hda2 to my lilo.conf?

OK, more info guys- I'm installing slack to a portable vhd made with portable qemu-img
and called it simply "vhd"
"qemu-img create vhd 1800M"
Then I boot up slack12.2 DVD and use cfdisk to chop up the vhd.
Then "poweroff"

OK, again start slack DVD and install.