Slackware Setup Instructions

Here are a list of all the general things I did after installing Slackware Linux 8.0 on the eBox. These are somewhat obsolete now that 8.1 is out (see my current page for 8.1 instructions). I make a lot of assumptions here, so you'll probably need to know at least roughly what you're doing (ie. don't just follow these blindly). Anyway, here we go:

General

Add the following lines to /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	auto		noauto,user	0 0
/dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660		noauto,user,ro	0 0
none            /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs        defaults        0 0

Run the following:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mkdir /mnt/cdrom

Remove sendmail. To do this, run the following:
```
removepkg sendmail
rm /sbin/sendmail
```
Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out all uncommented lines (these are services you most likely do not need or want)
Add the following line to /etc/ld.so.conf:
```
/opt/kde/lib
```
Edit /etc/profile:
- remove line ignoreeof=10
- delete ignoreeof from the export line below it
- add a line:
```
export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
```
Add the following lines to /etc/inputrc (these make del, home, and end work in bash)
```
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
```
Downgrade to the previous version of the autoconf package (can be found in the pasture directory on the Slackware CD) - this is needed for Xine CVS compile

Tune startup

Run the following:

cd /etc/rc.d
chmod a-x rc.nfsd rc.font rc.pcmcia

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 and comment out loading of rpc portmapper, nfsd, lpd, mounting of nfs filesystems
Comment out ldconfig line in /etc/rc.d/rc.M

Samba

If Samba isn't already installed, install it (insert the Slackware CD, mount it, then run installpkg /mnt/cdrom/slakware/n1/samba.tgz)
Copy /etc/samba/smb.conf-sample to /etc/samba/smb.conf
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf, and make sure the following lines appear (replace existing ones if they're already there - be careful)
```
load printers = no
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
map to guest = bad user
```
Add a guest user (ignore any warnings about missing files you get from smbpasswd):
```
useradd guest
smbpasswd -a guest
```
Run the following so that Samba starts automatically on boot:
```
cp /usr/doc/samba-2.2.0a/examples/rc.samba /etc/rc.d
```

Kernel

To get quite a few things working you will need to upgrade the kernel (Slackware 8.0 uses either 2.2.19 or 2.4.5, both of which are fairly old).

Download the 2.4.18 kernel source (linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2) from kernel.org and run these commands:

cd /usr/src
rm -rf linux linux-2.2.19 linux-2.4.5
tar yxfv linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
mv linux linux-2.4.18
ln -s linux-2.4.18 linux
cd linux
make xconfig

Now select what you want. The following is a guide:
- Compile in: MTRR support, ACPI (bus manager, system, processor, button), APM bios support, Generic use PCI DMA, loopback device support, input core support (keyboard, mouse, joystick, event interface), Ext3 journalling file system support, DOS FAT fs support (MSDOS, VFAT), UDF file system support, VGA test console, Preliminary USB device filesystem, UHCI/OHCI (depending on your motherboard), USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support, Enhanced Real Time Clock support
- Modules: /dev/agpgart (AGP support), I2C support, I2C bit-banging interfaces, I2C device interface, I2C /proc interface, Video For Linux, BT848 Video For Linux, TV card (bt848) mixer support, appropriate sound card drivers
- Not required: local APIC, math emulation, /dev file system support, Video mode selection, frame-buffer support

Click save, then run these (bzImage & modules will take a while on some systems):

make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.18

Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a new option for the new kernel (copy an existing image= block of lines and edit as appropriate. Don't forget to make sure each item has a unique label line. You may also want to make sure the new 2.4.18 option is the first image= block defined in the file, and set the timeout to 20 (this means 20 decisections, ie. 2 seconds).
Run lilo -v
If all is well, reboot

ext3

ext3fs is a journalling file system. Basically, when you write to the hard drive, it also writes to a journal drive. If it gets interrupted during writing (eg. by a power cut) your drive won't get trashed and most of the time you won't lose any data. The great thing about ext3fs is that it runs on top of ext2, so you don't have to reformat to use it, and also it's now a standard part of Linux (in the kernel and util-linux). Anyway, to set it up all you need to do is this:

Upgrade to kernel 2.4.18 (which you should have done above)
Upgrade to util-linux 2.11r (available from slackware-current)
To install the journal, run this for each ext2 partition on your system (can be done while mounted):
```
tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX
```
where XX is the partition number (run mount with no arguments to find what ext2 partitions are on your system).

XFree86 4.2.0

XFree86 4.2.0 is required by the latest nVidia drivers, and is worth having. Just grab the packages from slackware-current and install them.