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Installing slack to Acer laptop
Hi,
I'm installing slackware to my Acer travelmate 4202WLMi laptop as soon as I get ISO's burned.
My current plan is to use logical volume manager 2 on it for
/home
/opt
/var
/tmp
/usr
I was planning on encrypting my home partition also. (Is there tutorial somewhere)
I'll make separate boot partition using ext2 but after that my filesystems are a bit open. I would like to test the new reiser4 but how could this be done? Intall slack on machine and then download the kernel patch? And then start to create the other partitions for lvm using reiser4? Is the reiser4 stable enough?
Does reiser4 work with LVM2? I now have XFS on it and I noticed I can't shrink my partitions at all so I need to change my filesystem to make my system more dynamic.
Is wireless extension v17 or newer required to be downloaded for slack?
I'm also planning on getting WD's My Book 320Gb external HD but I don't have experience about any of them so does it work with linux without too much of a hassle?
Still thinking on waiting until the new 11.0 is released before I install Slack again. I now use Gentoo on it but I'm again getting bored about the constant compiling.
Also, what is the "correct" way to install huge amounts of packages in Slackware (=KDE). I was thinking to do things right this time instead of turning to 3rd party software like slapt-get and slackpkg.
Last edited by Zmyrgel; 06-21-2006 at 01:37 AM.
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