[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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+ | Yes, they did seem very interesting, | ||
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+ | Those french articles were written by Niki Kovacs (kikinovak is his nick) 11 years ago. Niki is no longer using Slackware and I assume he removed those articles because no one accessed them. Feel free to reach out to him if you are interested, but I guess it would be good to just remove the references here in the main article.\\ | ||
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+ | Sadly, the links to the French PDF files (external links section) are dead. Tested today.\\ | ||
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All of the information contained here is taken from http:// | All of the information contained here is taken from http:// | ||
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+ | Thanks, some of topics referred to as chapters can be linked to appropriate wiki articles. | ||
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+ | Perhaps, the parts showing Slackware installation output should be wrapped in the code tags (or something similar). It doesn' | ||
+ | For a new user it **might** not be clear whether it's the author' | ||
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+ | Please pay attention to create all pages copied from the Slackware Book in the **slackbook: | ||
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+ | Would it not be better to create a fdisk example with sectors? --- | ||
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+ | =====Real screenshots? | ||
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+ | Wouldn' | ||
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+ | Image sizes better now, thanks to mfillpot | ||
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+ | Created screenshots in media manager Slackware: | ||
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+ | > Good work! I see only one colour screenshot currently but it's bright and crisp. --- // | ||
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+ | > Will you be replacing all of the screenshot with full color images on the page as they are created or just dumping them into the media manager until all images are ready? --- // | ||
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+ | > I first create all the images then dump them in the into the media manager and as I understand it can they be referenced from there.--- // | ||
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+ | >> Images look great. | ||
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+ | > I re-encoded the images so they are smaller, further they are the same.--- // | ||
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+ | ===== Namespace and Translation ===== | ||
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+ | Per Eric's comment above, should translations of this page be included in the **slackbook: | ||
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+ | Pages that are taken from the Slack Book should go in the **slackbook** namespace, not in the **slackware** namespace. Translations of the Slack Book should go into the associated language namespace - for instance " | ||
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+ | Restored the document to the slackware namspace to allow community input. | ||
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+ | It is still confusing that typing the word " | ||
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+ | It would help the user to know the differences, | ||
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+ | Also, we miss a presentation of the specifics of GPT and UEFI in the context of the installer. For instance it is not obvious for some users to understand why the first screen they see can differ (Grub vs Syslinux) depending on their firmware' | ||
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+ | Partitioning with fdisk is a little different from the past, since fdisk now supports different partitioning schemes. | ||
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+ | Create a new label | ||
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+ | Slackware uses LILO which writes to the MBR, so you need to configure the disk as DOS with MBR and then create at least two partitions for swap (type 82) and linux system (type 83) and set the bootable flag on it, just like in the good old, bad old days. | ||
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+ | So if you have a 20 GB disk for example, run 'fdisk / | ||
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+ | Deviate from the above, and LILO won't install. | ||
+ | -- Herman 2016/06/19 | ||
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