Rubenerd

I haven’t used Slackware in a long time, but I was tasked with getting it working in a Xen VM. The details of PV versus HVM are for another post; suffice to say I was taken aback that even 14.1 still uses LILO. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell we need GRUB for PV.

Rather than using the menu installer like an “expert”, I prefer installing the minimum required, then building it up after the fact. Perhaps its a vestige of borking installs, so I was always quick to get something booting to test. It also gives me a chance to script.

After installing and booting, mount the install DVD/CD and go to the packages folder:

# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /hdc
# cd /dev/cdrom/slackware64

For applications:

# cd ap
# installpkg groff*txz man-pages*txz man*txz vim*txz

For networking:

# cd ../n
# installpkg curl*txz dhcpcd*txz htdig*txz iftop*txz iptables*txz 
  iputils*txz lynx*txz mtr*txz ncftp*txz net-tools*txz nmap*txz 
  network-scripts*txz openssh*txz rsync*txz tcpdump*txz wget*txz

The iputils package provides arping, clockdiff, ninfod, ping, rarpd, rdisc, tracepath, and traceroute.