In my last post about Slackware Linux, I mentioned how Slackware does not automatically resolve dependencies. Tonight, I had to deal with a dependency issue in order to run Opera, my favorite browser ™. Here’s how I dealt with it. I downloaded and installed Opera. It installed without errors, but, when I tried to start […]
This is the last post in a series on installing Slackware Linux. The earlier posts: Part 1: Considered why some persons find Slackware difficult to install. Part 2: Partitioned the hard drive for a clean install, as opposed to an upgrade or a dual boot installation. Part 3: Formatted the swap drive and target drive […]
This is the fifth of series of posts on installing Slackware Linux. The previous parts: Part 1: Considered why some persons find Slackware difficult to install. Part 2: Partitioned the hard drive for a clean install, as opposed to an upgrade or a dual boot installation. Part 3: Formatted the swap drive and target drive […]
This is the fourth part of a series on installing Slackware Linux. Part 1: Considered why some persons find Slackware difficult to install. Part 2: Partitioned the hard drive for a clean install, as opposed to an upgrade or a dual boot installation. Part 3: Formatted the swap drive and target drive and pointed the […]
Yesterday, we looked at using cfdisk to partition the hard drive (this morning, I changed to the title of that post to make it more accurate). Today we will look at formatting drives and selecting the target drive for the installation. We left off yesterday by exiting cfdisk and returning to the command line. To […]
Update: I changed “formatting” to “partitioning” in the title to make it more descriptive. This is the second of several posts on installing Slackware Linux. The first post is here. Before installing Slackware or any operating system, you have to have the installation media. I use CDs because some of my computers are old enough […]
For some time now I’ve wanted to write a post on how to install Slackware Linux. I even had a bunch of pictures taken and kept getting distracted, then a new version came in the mail. I’ve finally sprung the time to set it up and will devote several posts to installing and configuring Slackware […]