Azman @UniMAP

Note: I have removed a section on DE-less installation since my current slackware installations ARE, in fact, DE-less.

Note: I have also removed a section on hijacking other Linux system - this, here, turned out to be VERY similar to what needed to be done.

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I need to use GTK3 version that is newer that the one on 14.2, so I tried the development version (slackware64-current). I have done the same once (pre-11), so I am aware that there can be some issues when doing this. I am happy to say that I AM writing this on a slackware64-current (15.0 beta?) installation on my laptop.

So, this is a little note to my future self (or anybody that may be find this useful DISCLAIMER: Use this at your own risk!). I am doing this while still using Devuan and I want to keep that for backup, in case things go wrong. (On a side note, the reason I use Devuan was because of the GTK3 version.) So, I have an extra partition that I have reformatted and prepared to download the stuffs I need.

• download official packages (getslack)
  • create download path: <mount-path>/home/share/slackware
  • create custom getslack config .getslack
  • set VERS=current
  • exclude kde & xfce
• setup EFI boot
  • bzImage in kernels/huge.s (rename to vmlinuz)
  • initrd.img in isolinux/ (this has the slackware setup)
• boot and run installation as usual
  • DO NOT format partition (packages are there!)
  • pick packages from mounted path
  • manually set kernel to boot (i use huge - generic needs initramfs)