Installing slackware in vmware

If you are installing Slackware as a virtual machine, make sure your VMware Player or Server are properly configured and that you have the necessary. If you are installing Slackware for real, make sure that you have dedicated the necessary space on your hard disk for the installation - it can be an existing partition or some free space. To begin the installation, assuming you are using a VMware product:. Select option 3. Hit Enter to start booting from CD. After a few seconds, you will be prompted to decide what kernel you want to boot.

The Slackware DVD includes a number of kernels, adapted to work with different hardware profiles. You should not be worried about this prompt; in most cases, the most suitable kernel will be automatically selected.

At this stage, you should simply hit Enter to proceed. Next, you will be asked to choose your keyboard. If you're using the standard US keyboard, just hit Enter. If not, please select the most relevant one. A few moments later, you will begin the installation.

The installation has two separate steps:. Preparation of partitions. Setup of the distribution itself. You will first have to prepare your hard disk by creating the relevant partitions normally swap, root and home. This will be done using cfdisk about which you can read more in my Linux From Scratch article.

After the partitions are made, you will begin the standard setup, which is very similar to what you have done with other distributions, like Ubuntu, for example.

To begin the installation, login as root. Type root and hit Enter. Start cfdisk - type cfdisk and hit Enter. Although you might be alarmed by the alien look of cfdisk tool, it is no different than the fancy color GUIs used by modern, popular distros. The principles are the same. It has no partition table and therefore all of the space is free. Below the highlighted line are the cfdisk commands, marked in brackets.

Use the arrow cursors to navigate and Enter to select the highlighted choice. Please note that a help sentence is displayed at the bottom of the screen, explaining the meaning of each command, in case it is not self-evident. We need to create partitions, namely swap, root and home. As usual, I will begin by making a swap partition, equal in size to the RAM MB , after that a 5GB root partition and dedicate the remaining space to the home partition. To create a new partition, move the highlight mark to the [ New ] command and hit Enter.

You will be prompted to select the type of the partition - we need [Primary]. You need to decide where to create the partition - at the beginning or the end of the free space. Theoretically, this should not make any difference today. However, very old computers with old BIOSes are incapable of reading beyond the th sector of the hard disk roughly 8GB. This means that if you were to place your root partition at the end of a large drive, it is possible that you would not be able to boot from it.

Alternatively, you could place a small boot partition at the beginning of the drive in order to solve this potential problem.

But why make things difficult? At this point, copying between host and guest clipboards has been enabled, however with ESXi you may find it hasn't been configured at the Virtual Machine level. Follow the VMWare instructions to get it enabled. Enjoy the Holiday season! Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project. Book Creator Add this page to your book. Book Creator Remove this page from your book. Manage book 0 page s. Creating a new VMware Tools installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Tools. In which directory do you want to install the binary files? This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped. The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Do you wish to enable this feature? Please upgrade to a newer virtual NIC. Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules?

Do you want to enable Guest Authentication vgauth? Enabling vgauth is needed if you want to enable Common Agent caf. Skipping X configuration because X drivers are not included. Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel. Then see init for more information there are a few other files to edit. Generating the key and certificate files. Successfully generated the key and certificate files. You must restart your X session before any mouse or graphics changes take effect.

To enable advanced X features e. Log out and log back into your desktop session; and, 3. Restart your X session. The first thing to do is run: vmware-user Your display may flicker somewhat. Log In.