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--- linux:slack_0get [2025/01/01 15:56] – azman
+++ linux:slack_0get [2025/01/12 07:39] (current) – azman
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-===== Getting Slackware =====
+====== Getting Slackware ======
 The official way to do this is, of course, to get it from [[https://www.slackware.com/getslack/|slackware.com]].
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 Personally, I have [[https://codeberg.org/azman/my1shell/src/branch/master/getslack|getslack]], a bash script based on (more accurately, a trimmed-down version of) the excellent (he termed it //infamous//) [[https://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/mirror-slackware-current.sh|mirror-slackware-current.sh]] by [[https://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php|Alien Bob]]. When going down this path, the next step would be to prepare the installation media.
-++++ Slackware Installer ISO Image |
+===== Slackware Installer ISO Image =====
-==== Slackware Installer ISO Image ====
+I no longer need an ISO image (refer to USB installer below). But, I have my [[https://codeberg.org/azman/my1shell/src/branch/master/slack2iso|slack2iso]] script (also based on Alien Bob's script) that can help in creating one using the tree downloaded by ''getslack''.
-I no longer need an ISO image (refer to USB installer below). But, I have [[https://codeberg.org/azman/my1shell/src/branch/master/slack2iso|slack2iso]] script (also based on Alien Bob's script) can help in creating one using the tree downloaded by ''getslack''.
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-++++ Slackware USB Installer |
+===== Slackware USB Installer =====
-==== Slackware USB Installer ====
 [[https://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php|Alien Bob]] has provided a [[https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-slackware-using-usb-thumb-drive/|script]] to make/setup/configure a USB-based Slackware installation media. I wanted to do something simpler using the existing files in the Slackware tree that I mirrored using ''getslack'' (mentioned above). So, here is how I got that working.
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 And... we're done! Now we have a simple Slackware USB Installer and install it on every computer we can get our hands on! 8-)
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+===== Note: GPT Disks and EFI =====
+Things moving to (U)EFI and GPT... slowly leaving legacy BIOS and MBR.
+Instead of MBR, we use GPT partitioning scheme:
+  * supports bigger disk
+  * supports EFI booting (easier to maintain actually :p)
+Partition codes are 2-bytes instead (only 1-byte on MBR's partition table). Among the common ones:
+  * EF00 (EFI System Partition): this is what EFI boot look for
+    * format FAT32 <code>mkdosfs -F 32 -n MY1EFI /dev/sdxx</code>
+  * 0700 (MS Basic Data): Windows Partition
+    * format NTFS <code>mkntfs -f -L MY1WIN /dev/sdxx</code>
+  * 8300 (Linux filesystem): Linux Partition
+    * format EXT4 <code>mkfs.ext4 -L MY1LIN /dev/sdxx</code>
+Once boot using EFI, ''efibootmgr'' tool can be used (available on Slackware 14.2)
+  * to create an entry labelled ''Slackware'' with loader file named ''\efi\slackware\elilo.efi'' located on first partition of first disk (''/dev/sda1'') <code>efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "Slackware" -l "\efi\slackware\elilo.efi"</code>
+  * to delete an entry xxxx (bootnum) <code>efibootmgr -b xxxx -B</code>
+  * to re-order boot sequence <code>efibootmgr -o xxxx,yyyy,zzzz</code>