Hi!

I'm new here, but i have some basic knowledge of slackware using since a long time salix (fluxbox).

Anyway, i'd like to install slackware on an older (but not that bad) laptop; also to try out the ede desktop. Now, i'm not sure, but i believe by default slackware (as salix does) uses lilo as bootloader. And i'd like to substitute it by syslinux, which i find better configurable (know extlinux from tinycorelinux pretty well).

Is that possible? And how should that be done?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Hi and welcome to this forum.

See here: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...t_without_uefi

I assume that the instructions for syslinux can be followed as well for a partition table in MBR only.

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Thanks for the pointer! I presume, the sys(ext)linux related infos are also valid in case you're not going to do a gpt format (which really isn't needed in my case: it's a HP Pavilion with 2 gig ram, amd turion and a 128 gig flash disk ) (?)

Ah, i forgot: I'm going to install slackware on to a drive where before has been an alpinelinux installation (which did not work as i xpected). There is an extlinux bootloader on it. Could i use this, obviously configuring extlinux.conf? Or would it be better to "roll over"?

PS. I tried to install from an usb stick using the usb-stick.img. Booting is ok, but i encounter a problem with the network.sh script: Although i login as root (i think it's default for the installation) i get, when i try to start the script by './network.sh' a: Permission denied!

Why that?

I guess so, just use sfdisk instread of sgdisk then.

On the other hand aven if you do not _need_ it using GPT won't hurt.

I am using extlinux for my Slackware Live Edition, works well. No need for lilo.

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