5 InstallationĪctually there isn’t much to do during the install, it just does its own thing and a lot of text go past the screen really fast.
VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX ON SLACKWARE INSTALL
‘newbie’, then you will get the chance to install or not some individual packages. (if CD not found, go in VMware to the menu ‘Edit’, disconnect the ‘CD ROM’ and connect it again, then go back to Slackware, and try again)Ĭhoose e.g. ‘1 Install from Slackware CD or DVD’ and select Now your /dev/sda2 will be offered to be install partition, ‘Select’ and then select ‘Format’ and then select file system ‘resierfs’.įor each of these your options can vary, if you know what you are doing. Setup will now format and mount and activate your /dev/sda1 as your swap partition. Scroll down to ‘ADDSWAP’ and then press enter, it will detect and offer your /dev/sda1 for installing your swap, say `yes`. When finished press ‘’, then ‘yes’ to save the result.Make it bootable by Selecting ‘’, and press ,.Select “Primary” and then press enter to select the rest of the disk space as root.Select ‘Primary’ and then type in the size of your first partition.Use the arrow keys to move to ‘New’ press enter,.You can see why (options), by pressing and or Įnter 1 to select a Keyboard Map: press enter If it does not boot from the CD go to step 8.īecause VMware uses SCSI disk emulation, you have to type:
The VM will boot from the CD/DVD image and stop at the boot: prompt for you start installation. Start VMware Slackware VM by powering it on.
VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX ON SLACKWARE ISO
Browse to the directory of your iso file: Inform that you are going to install from iso imageĪ. iso images) directly in VMware to install. This because you can use this downloaded files (which are so called.
2 Prepare a VM for Installationįor the installation in VMware you do not have burn these to CD/DVD’s. In any case you would end up with the following file I ended up downloading it via BitTorrent because it’s the fastest way I can lay my hands on it and also I can upload the ISO after downloading it taking some load off the Slackware mirrors. Slackware is not officially supported on VMware, but it can be installed without too many problems, once you got past choosing ‘scsi.s’ and ‘/dev/sda’, in the beginning and remember to install lilo on the MBR.Īs always there are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. This guide will help you install Slackware in a safe VMware virtual environment, with its own unique quirks to take care off.
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