Setting up a Slackware64-15.0 virtual machine on VMware ESXi 8.0.0
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 boot
- Leave setting at EFI booting
- CD/DVD drive = Datastore ISO file -> Slackware64-15.0 iso file
Power on machine, and it should boot the Slackware DVD
- at the installer prompt: gdisk /dev/sda
- create a 250 Mb partition, type EF00
- create a 1G partition, type 8200
- create a single large partition on remaining space, type 8300
- write changes to disk and exit gdisk
- run setup, and run through steps to install Slackware
- accept most defaults, run full installation
- networking = I like to use a static IP, because I'll log in remotely
- filesystem for main partition = just use ext4
- the installer should format the EFI partition and install eLILO
- at end of installation, reboot machine. it should boot to the runlevel 3 prompt.
- adduser
- chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.*
- edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to uncomment local mirror
- slackpkg update gpg
- slackpkg update
- slackpkg install-new (this shouldn't do anything)
- slackpkg upgrade-all and let it upgrade all packages
- at the end of the update process, it will ask about updated config files. we haven't changed any, so overwrite all.
- edit /etc/ntp.conf to uncomment (remove the # marks) from the front of the 4 server lines
- chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd
- mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.117 -m ext4:vmw_pvscsi:vmxnet3:vfat:loop
- rm /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/initrd.gz
- rm /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz
- cp /boot/vmlinuz-generic-5.15.117 /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz
- cp /boot/initrd.gz /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/initrd.gz
- power off machine with halt command
In ESXi console, edit the machine properties to change the SCSI controller to VMware paravirtual SCSI
Power on machine and wait for it to boot
From the Actions menu -> Guest OS -> Install VMware tools
ssh into the machine: ssh user@192.168.x.x
- switch to root with: su -
- mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
- copy all files from /mnt/cdrom to /root/vmware
- cd /root/vmware
- untar the VMware config tools
- cd into the directory
- run: vmware-install.pl and follow the bouncing ball. it's probably best to accept the defaults.
- you probably shouldn't need to reboot at this point, but it can't hurt...
At this point, you have a VM that is ready to be deployed in any number of ways. This is the basic installation done.
Notes:
- If you're using an SSD, you might want to add ",discard,noatime" to the mount options for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab
- 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 boot
- Leave setting at EFI booting
- CD/DVD drive = Datastore ISO file -> Slackware64-15.0 iso file
Power on machine, and it should boot the Slackware DVD
- at the installer prompt: gdisk /dev/sda
- create a 250 Mb partition, type EF00
- create a 1G partition, type 8200
- create a single large partition on remaining space, type 8300
- write changes to disk and exit gdisk
- run setup, and run through steps to install Slackware
- accept most defaults, run full installation
- networking = I like to use a static IP, because I'll log in remotely
- filesystem for main partition = just use ext4
- the installer should format the EFI partition and install eLILO
- at end of installation, reboot machine. it should boot to the runlevel 3 prompt.
- adduser
- chmod -x /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.*
- edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to uncomment local mirror
- slackpkg update gpg
- slackpkg update
- slackpkg install-new (this shouldn't do anything)
- slackpkg upgrade-all and let it upgrade all packages
- at the end of the update process, it will ask about updated config files. we haven't changed any, so overwrite all.
- edit /etc/ntp.conf to uncomment (remove the # marks) from the front of the 4 server lines
- chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd
- mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.117 -m ext4:vmw_pvscsi:vmxnet3:vfat:loop
- rm /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/initrd.gz
- rm /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz
- cp /boot/vmlinuz-generic-5.15.117 /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz
- cp /boot/initrd.gz /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/initrd.gz
- power off machine with halt command
In ESXi console, edit the machine properties to change the SCSI controller to VMware paravirtual SCSI
Power on machine and wait for it to boot
From the Actions menu -> Guest OS -> Install VMware tools
ssh into the machine: ssh user@192.168.x.x
- switch to root with: su -
- mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
- copy all files from /mnt/cdrom to /root/vmware
- cd /root/vmware
- untar the VMware config tools
- cd into the directory
- run: vmware-install.pl and follow the bouncing ball. it's probably best to accept the defaults.
- you probably shouldn't need to reboot at this point, but it can't hurt...
At this point, you have a VM that is ready to be deployed in any number of ways. This is the basic installation done.
Notes:
- If you're using an SSD, you might want to add ",discard,noatime" to the mount options for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab
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