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Old 05-30-2014, 02:31 PM   #1
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What Format?


Installing Slackware on a 500GB disk with MS-DOS table. What type does the boot partition need to be for this to work?
 
Old 05-30-2014, 03:05 PM   #2
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Basically any partition type your boot loader recognizes ;-p

*BTW I'm moving this thread to Slackware/Installation.
 
Old 05-30-2014, 03:07 PM   #3
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Kind an odd question.

I think you mean loader/boot manager as opposed to /boot.


Here is one of many examples one might use. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/i...ackware_1.html
 
Old 05-30-2014, 04:24 PM   #4
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Here is one of many examples one might use. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/i...ackware_1.html
The Slackware installer doen't change much over years, but this reference is pretty old (Slackware 11, and the current stable release is 14.1).

@Pinonoir: the boot partition needs to be of type "linux", and the installer will put a filesystem in it for you, that it'll let you choose among those available at most: btrfs ext2 ext3 ext4 jfs reiserfs xfs.

Last edited by Didier Spaier; 05-30-2014 at 04:29 PM. Reason: List of file systems corrected.
 
  


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