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Slackware Network Install on Raspberry Pi 3
Introduction
This is an abridged version of the SARPi installation guide dealing with the 'headless' install case for installing Slackware 14.2. There is nothing wrong with the original guide, it is very complete, but it will be somewhat wordy for people with prior Slackware installation experience, includes many screenshots familiar to users of Slackware and I found myself wanting to see just the differences between Intel and RPi install instead of the whole shebang.
Requirements
- uSD card at least 16GB in size
- Card reader for your PC
- The RPi 3 itself
- A power supply for the Pi
- Ethernet cable
SD card preparation
(On your desktop machine) Assuming your SD device is /dev/sdc
# wget http://sarpi.co.uk/files/rpi3/142/img/sarpi3-installer_slack14.2_20Jul18_sp1.img.xz # xz -dc sarpi3-installer_slack14.2_20Jul18_sp1.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=65536 # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/hd # vim /mnt/hd/cmndline.txt
Add the following text to the end of the line with the boot parameters:
kbd=us nic=auto:eth0:dhcp
Booting the installer
Put the uSD card back in the Pi, and boot it. It will boot into a ramdisk which is running the installer. Boot the Pi while running tcpdump on your desktop to figure out what IP address it takes, you will see a line printed like this:
16:27:19.173035 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from b8:27:eb:fe:b8:53 (oui Unknown), length 361 16:27:19.401973 ARP, Request who-has 172.17.0.71 tell 172.17.0.71, length 46
In this case the IP address of the Pi is 172.17.0.71.
ssh into the Pi as root (<enter> for password).
Set the date:
# ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org
Set the terminal to something that will allow the dialog program to work properly if you don't want setup screens to look like garbage:
# export TERM=vt320
Using fdisk (or your favourite Slackware partition editor), update the partition table on the /dev/mmcblk0 device to reflect how you want your system.
# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
The dd command when preparing the uSD will have already given you a 'boot' partition (/dev/mmcblk0p1), leave that alone and only add partitions to leave something like this:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk0p1 * 32 205055 205024 100.1M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk0p2 206848 2303999 2097152 1G 82 Linux swap /dev/mmcblk0p3 2304000 124735487 122431488 58.4G 83 Linux
Swap is of course optional.
Running setup
Setup is now much the same as for Intel. Remap keyboard, format partitions etc.. There will be a warning about the lack of RTC when choosing EXT4 FS, just do as it suggests.
Choose HTTP install, and set the location as:
http://ftp.arm.slackware.com
Set the source directory as:
/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-14.2
The source directory is the one that contains PACKAGES.TXT.
Run the install as normal.
Booting from the Linux partition
You've now installed the necessary packages, but your system will still boot the installer ramdisk image from the FAT partition until you change some things.
If you didn't during setup make the partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 visible to your Linux system just mount it now, e.g.:
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot
Remove the ramdisk:
# rm /mnt/boot/config.gz
Assuming your rootfs is mounted at /mnt, install extra packages:
# ROOT=/mnt installpkg /rpi-extra/kernel* /rpi-extra/sarpi*
Final configuration
You can also, during setup or at a later stage make the following change if no RTC has been installed:
edit /etc/ntpd.conf and comment-in these lines:
server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst server 3.pool.ntp.org iburst
# chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd # /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd start
Sources
- Originally written by User bifferos