My Slackware 15.0 Alpha 2021.03.16 Install
by rogerxx from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FED7)
Here are some of my notes/fixes noticed during the Slackware 5.0 Alpha 2021.03.16 install. Everything seemed to work as expected, although I skipped installing KDE & game packages. Just your usual basic distribution install with the generic needed options.
1. I accidentally skipped the nameserver configuration for my static IPv4 ethernet configuration. Past installs had the entire static IPv4 addressing, all four lines, all on the display all at once. Now, each line is on a separate screen, although typing flows much better, can easily confuse nameserver with a DNS server! Likely state, "Would you like to configure a namerserver now? (eg. 192.168.11.1)" Similar to printing an example within the prior IPv4 menu addressing examples?
2. I'm finally getting my feet wet with EFI. I really liked how the past Slackware 14 series allowed installing Lilo into individual partitions, avoiding conflicts with existing MBR/EFI boot managers, while still allowing the Slackware to be booted or found by other Grub installed operating systems. On this Slackware 15 Alpha install, the menu notified installing ELilo instead of Lilo, however should likely provide a tip notifying the user he/she can manage the boot order with other already existing boot managers using "efibootmgr -o" after rebooting. This would put the user at some ease, when having other EFI installed boot managers installed. Without this, I had to search the Internet linuxquestions.org forums using another device and found the efibootmgr tool rather quickly by pure luck. The "efibootmgr -o" tip may save lots of time.
3. The configuration menu for testing other fonts, finally has my favorite console font Terminus. I usually use ter-132n on my higher resolution displays, as such results in a very very large almost unreadable font on the Slackware Install CD/DVD currently configured display. I would suggest keeping the test screen as is, but reverting back to the default Slackware Install CD/DVD font type and font size configuration. This would allow continued easy reading of the remaining configuration menus within the 640x480(?) or 800x600(?) screens. On the flip, never knew Terminus console font could look so huge & so grand on such smaller resolution displays!
Thank God for allowing selecting the default editor during install, vim instead of vi, I usually later symlink vi to vim.
No xinitrc dwm option yet? (I know, dwm isn't likely on the default CD/DVD yet.)
1. I accidentally skipped the nameserver configuration for my static IPv4 ethernet configuration. Past installs had the entire static IPv4 addressing, all four lines, all on the display all at once. Now, each line is on a separate screen, although typing flows much better, can easily confuse nameserver with a DNS server! Likely state, "Would you like to configure a namerserver now? (eg. 192.168.11.1)" Similar to printing an example within the prior IPv4 menu addressing examples?
2. I'm finally getting my feet wet with EFI. I really liked how the past Slackware 14 series allowed installing Lilo into individual partitions, avoiding conflicts with existing MBR/EFI boot managers, while still allowing the Slackware to be booted or found by other Grub installed operating systems. On this Slackware 15 Alpha install, the menu notified installing ELilo instead of Lilo, however should likely provide a tip notifying the user he/she can manage the boot order with other already existing boot managers using "efibootmgr -o" after rebooting. This would put the user at some ease, when having other EFI installed boot managers installed. Without this, I had to search the Internet linuxquestions.org forums using another device and found the efibootmgr tool rather quickly by pure luck. The "efibootmgr -o" tip may save lots of time.
3. The configuration menu for testing other fonts, finally has my favorite console font Terminus. I usually use ter-132n on my higher resolution displays, as such results in a very very large almost unreadable font on the Slackware Install CD/DVD currently configured display. I would suggest keeping the test screen as is, but reverting back to the default Slackware Install CD/DVD font type and font size configuration. This would allow continued easy reading of the remaining configuration menus within the 640x480(?) or 800x600(?) screens. On the flip, never knew Terminus console font could look so huge & so grand on such smaller resolution displays!
Thank God for allowing selecting the default editor during install, vim instead of vi, I usually later symlink vi to vim.
No xinitrc dwm option yet? (I know, dwm isn't likely on the default CD/DVD yet.)