Monday, October 1, 2007

Slackware 12.0 installation

These are the steps encountered during the installation of Slackware 12.0 in my IBM T40 system.
1. When booting from CD1, press enter after boot: appears.
2. Login as root.
3. cfdisk, this will create the partition layout of the hardisk. Set it as below:
Name Flags Type Fs type Size
hda1 Boot Pri NTFS 29417.48
hda2 Pri Linux 6967.30
hda3 Pri Linux swap 495.446
4. Type setup.
5. Addswap
6. Check swap partition for bad blocks -> No
7. Swap space configured -> OK
8. Select Linux installation partition: /dev/hda2 Linux
9. Format partition /dev/hda2 -> Yes
10. Select filesystem for /dev/hda2 : ext3
11. FAT or NTFS partitions detected, add to /etc/fstab -> Tes
12. Select partition to add to /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1
13. Pick mount point for /dev/hda1 : /mnt/windows
14. Media selection : slackware CD or DVD
15. Package series selection
16. Select prompting mode : full
17. Make USB flash boot : skip
18. Modem configuration : /dev/ttys3
19. Installation of LILO : simple
1024x768x256
LILO destination MBR
20. Network config: DHCP
21. Confirm starting services to run
22. Hardware clock set to UTC : no
23. Timezone config : Singapore
24. Default window manager : KDE
25. Set root passwrd: **
26. We're done with the setup, reboot
27. startx, to start the x environment

Adding user is performed under KDE environment, KUser:
-Login shell: /bin/tcsh

From konsole: nano /etc/sudoers, then add the line :
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

From konsole: /sbin/lspice:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

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