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Howto install slackware64 -current with full disk encryption, including swap on Linode

The task

To have a working virtual machine running and tracking Slackware64 -current, with full disk encryption, including swap, using LUKS with a custom partitioning schematic using LVM.

The steps I followed

Introduction

Linode offers Slackware64 14.2 out of the box. This can be upgraded to current in the normal fashion. See this linuxquestions.org post, which is what inspired me to get started on this.

This howto can be used to make a fresh installation of slackware64 14.2 or current. The default image as provided by Linode is stripped down due to their size restrictions. As someone used to following the recommendation to do a full install, I realized it can be a pretty long haul to have this setup just like my local PC.

As an example of a little shocker that enlightened my about the image size restriction,

root@darkstar:~# which perl

no perl in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/qt/bin)

The steps

Sources

 howtos:misc:slackware64_current_with_lvm_and_luks_on_linodecloud ()