Using the step-by-step instructions on
http://rpi.fatdog.eu, I tried to install Slackware 14.1
Even after 19 years of using Slackware on the PC (x86 and x86_64 and multilib) I'm a bit puzzled that after the package selection going on to the installation it's "done" in a second or two.
That could never be right; fast as Slackware is, it's still not THAT fast :-)
Indeed, nothing had been installed, but neither could I capture what has gone wrong. (Next time I'll give it a shot with
or so, might be I capture the problem)
Since /mnt was still mounted and I got a bit curious what I could figure out what the issue might be, I went ahead and try to install it "by hand":
Code:
ROOT=/mnt installpkg /floppy/slackarm/14.1/slackware/a/*.t?z
I went on with a few more sets, and then my time was up, so will start from scratch next time.
Yet, I wonder if someone else has an idea what could be wrong and how they worked around the issue, or if you have other ideas how I could go about and fix it. Might be that I have to do the whole installation process by hand; If so, I'm curious what things I should think about and set right before I have to iterate over silly mistakes :-)
What I am thinking of doing next:
Perform all actions, including formatting the root partition, since ... oh well, why not :-) with 'setup' up to and including installation of packages. I will redirect std error to a place where I can capture and read it (unless someone has a better idea

)
If possible resolve the issue that is reported (from stderr) or else continue like this:
Code:
for series in $(echo "a ap d e f k kde l t tcl x xap y")
do
ROOT=/mnt installpkg /floppy/slackarm/14.1/slackware/${series}/*.t?z
done
Figure out the finishing touches, remove the initrd.gz; cross my fingers and reboot.