Subj : Installing Slack11 on 486 computers
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 18:31:50

Slackware 11 on a 486/66 vintage computer in 2o25

We'll be using Slackware 11 as its the last version that supports booting from
1.44mb 3.5" diskettes. You can find everything you need 
@https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-11.0. You'll find bare.i in
/bootdisks - this is the BOOT IMAGE. You'll find install.1/install.2 in 
/rootdisks - these are the INSTALL IMAGES. /slackware has all the package 
groups, which we'll by copying to a 3rd partition on our CFCard HDD later...

 1. cat bare.i > slack11-boot.img 
 2. cat install.1 > slack11-install.1.img 
 3. cat install.2 > slack11-install.2.img 
 4. have a blank.img for boot diskette creation during install 

 5. boot slack11-boot.img 

 6. press ENTER at 'boot:'

 7. change to slack11-install.1.img when prompted
 8. change to slack11-install.2.img when prompted 

 9. press ENTER at 'Enter 1 to select a keyboard map' for US 

10. login as 'root', no password

We're going to create three partitions on a 2GB CFCard; 
64MB - SWAP
 1GB - / root
 1GB - /slackware (packages to be installed...)

11. 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3' - format /slackware partition; this may require a
    reboot at this point...

Take CFCard to modern computer and copy contents of /slackware packages 
folders; A/ AP/ D/ etc...

12. 'cfdisk' - setup partitions 

13. 'mkswap /dev/hda1'
14. 'swapon /dev/hda1'

15. 'setup' - start Slackware 11 installation

16. choose 'ADDSWAP' - select /dev/hda1
17. select 'no' at 'CHECK SWAP PARTITIONS FOR BAD BLOCKS'
18. select 'OK' at 'SWAP SPACE CONFIGURED'
19. select '/dev/hda2' at 'Select Linux installation partition'
20. select 'Format' at 'FORMAT PARTITION /dev/hda2'
21. select 'ext2' at 'SELECT FILESYSTEM FOR /dev/hda2'
22. select 'OK' for '4096' at 'SELECT INODE DENSITY FOR /dev/hda2'

Installer formats / root partition... 

23. select 'OK' for 'done adding partitions' at 'Select other Linux
    partitions for /etc/fstab'
24. select 'OK' at 'DONE ADDING LINUX PARTITIONS TO /etc/fstab'
25. select 'Install from a hard drive partition' at 'SOURCE MEDIA SELECTION'
26. enter '/dev/hda3' at 'INSTALLING FROM HARD DISK'
27. enter '/' at 'SELECT SOURCE DIRECTORY' (unless you copied entire 
    /slackware folder, then enter '/slackware/')

Choose what package series you want to install... 
(Can use 'setup' after install to install more??)

28. select 'OK' after 'PACKAGE SERIES SELECTION'
29. choose 'menu' WHEN CHOOSING HOW TO INSTALL (fix this later)

Choose which software packages you want to install...

30. select 'OK' when finished with all selected package series 

Slackware 11 Installer will now install selected packages...

31. select 'OK' for 'bootdisk' at 'INSTALL LINUX KERNEL'
32. select 'Skip' for 'Skip' at MAKE BOOTDISK 

33. select 'OK' for '/dev/ttyS0' at 'MODEM CONFIGURATION'
34. select 'Yes' at 'ENABLE HOTPLUG/UDEV SUBSYSTEM AT BOOT?'

35. select 'OK' for 'simple' at 'INSTALL LILO'
36. select 'OK' for 'standard' at 'CONFIGURE LILO TO USE FRAME BUFFER CONSOLE?'
37. select 'OK' with NO INPUT at 'OPTIONAL LILO append...'
38. select 'OK' for 'MBR' at 'SELECT LILO DESTINATION'

39. select 'OK' for 'ms' at 'MOUSE CONFIGURATION'
40. select 'OK' for '/dev/ttyS1' at 'SELECT SERIAL PORT'
41. select 'Yes' at 'GPM CONFIGURATION'

42. select 'Yes' at 'CONFIGURE NETWORK'
43. enter 'slack' at 'ENTER HOSTNAME'
44. enter 'local' at 'ENTER DOMAINNAME FOR 'slack''
45. select 'OK' for 'DHCP' at 'SETUP IP ADDRESS FOR 'slack.local''
46. select 'OK' for NO INPUT at 'SET DHCP HOSTNAME'
47. select 'Yes' at 'CONFIRM SETUP COMPLETE'

Hostname: slack 
Domain name: local 
IP address: (use DHCP server)
Netmask: (use DHCP server)
Gateway: (use DHCP server)
Nameserver: (use DHCP server)

48. select 'OK' at 'CONFIRM STARTUP SERVICES TO RUN'
49. select 'No' at 'CONSOLE FONT CONFIRMATION'
50. select 'OK' for 'NO' at 'HARDWARE CLOCK SET TO UTC?'
51. select 'OK' for 'US/Pacific' at 'TIMEZONE CONFIGURATION'
52. select 'Yes' at 'WARNING: NO ROOT PASSWORD DETECTED'
53. enter [PASSWORD] at 'New pasword:' and 'Re-enter new password:'
54. press ENTER to continue 
55. select 'OK' at 'SETUP COMPLETE'
56. select 'OK' for 'EXIT' at 'Slackware Linux Setup'
57. reboot

58. enter 'linux' for 'boot:' at LILO Menu 

Viola.



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