Minimal slackware install

Of course it can be less than this, but it is pretty much enough to start to organize your Slackware installation exactly as you want it. You can even reuse some old memory stick. I prefer to have usb stick much more than running small cd distributions, such as "Damn Small Linux" because it is writable and you can update it easily. An interesting package is slapt-get that enables to load packages and all dependencies from the net.

but, here is what you have to install (for the minimal Slackware installation):

A packages:
sysvinit
sysvinit-scripts
sysklogd
etc
aaa_base
aaa_elflibs
aaa_terminfo
bash
glibc-solibs
coreutils
kbd
shadow
devs
udev
util-linux
grep
e2fsprogs
pkgtools
device-mapper
findutils
getty
module-init-tools
sed
shadow
sysklogd
utempter
tar
gawk
gzip
less
bzip2
cxxlibs
lilo
kernel-huge
kernel-modules

AP packages:
man
groff

N packages:
network-scripts
net-toolsdf
dhcpcd
iputils

You can install packages from a working Slackware installation with:
# installpkg -root /wherewewanttoinstall name(s)ofpackage(s).tgz

Or you can boot to Slackware DVD, mount the DVD, mount the partition, install packages from the DVD with the same command.

after that,
chroot to the partition with the installation,

edit /etc/fstab
edit /etc/lilo.conf
(find somewhere how to do it)

# mount -o bind /dev /wherewewanttoinstall/dev
# mount -t proc /proc /wherewewanttoinstall/proc

# lilo

Reboot and boot your new (light) Slackware installation and customize it as you wish. It is about 170M. I used it on old computers that cannot boot from usb, to boot from hard drive, then continue with usb stick. even 266Mhz PentiumII machine works very fine with it.

i begin with a small slackware

i don't know if you think about numbers, like the size of drives or other numbers in life, in general. i do for some things. for the other, it doesn't matter. generally i really love things to be efficient, it doesnt mean it has to be fast, but pretty efficient. now the thing i would like to do is to:

- re-use old hardware
- use computers for other things but to check mail

i've been using slackware for about one and a half years now and this is my first linux distribution. i was windows guy before and to switch to linux it was definitely one of the best things i did recently. it really changed my life aleluyah

things to add:

- how to boot from usb drive if your old motherboard is not supporting it?

mkinitrd answers the question. google it, this is what will make things much easier with the old hardware and old usb-sticks.

we don't want garbage? so re-use your old hardware and don't buy new, because you really don't need it still.

read on soon!