About me

Hi, I'm TronNerd82. I'm an avid user of Slackware, CRUX, and NetBSD (but mostly Slackware). My interests include FOSS stuff, heavy metal, cats, comic books, and collecting music cassettes.

My goals when using this wiki are to offer up grammatical and spelling fixes where appropriate (I'll of course ask the original page creators when doing so), and to perhaps even provide some tutorials of my own if I find something worthwhile to make a tutorial about.

Currently, I am accessible via email at tronnerd82@aol.com (I intend to self-host at some point, and I'll update this page accordingly when that happens), but be aware that I don't check my email as often as I should.

For more reliable communication, you can contact me on Mastodon (@tronnerd82@mastodon.social), and Discord (username TronNerd82).

I can, of course, also occasionally be found on the ##slackware channel on irc.libera.chat, and the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup.

I've been working off-and-on on a few Slackware-related projects, and if you're interested, they are:

• Trying to install Slackware ARM 15.0 on my Banana Pi (I think the issue has to do with the crappy SATA cable I bought, as upon probing with the multimeter, the data line appears to be dead. A new cable is on the way).
• Attempting (to little success) to try installing Slackware to a hard drive without using the installer program. I've been trying this by mounting a formatted, partitioned drive and the install ISO, redirecting installpkg to install the a/ set to the drive (for some reason I often have to run the command twice for everything to work right), chrooting into base system, mounting the ISO again, and installing the rest, followed by post-install tweaking. I think it should logically work, but something's been hitching the process as it refuses to boot. I'll get to it eventually and make a tutorial on the wiki about it.
• Contemplating getting some vintage ARM hardware from the early 2000s and trying to get some form of Slackware going on it. I've got my eye on potentially getting the HP Jornada 820 handheld PC, as it does have Linux 2.4 and 2.6 support, meaning Slackware ARM could maybe run if I go for a really old version like ARMedslack 11.0. I've also thought about maybe the Castle Iyonix or the Simtec Electronics StrongARM ATX evaluation board, but those are harder to come by. Purely speculation, no idea when or if I'll do it, but if I do, I'll make a tutorial documenting the process in case you also have money to waste on this stuff.