Slackware installation using VirtualBox

• Select ‘New‘ then click ‘Next‘. You should then be at the VM Name and OS Type screen so type in your version of Slackware, (Slackware 13.0) in the name, bring down the OS tab and click Linux then the version tab and enter Other Linux.

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• It’ll set the memory at 256MB but if you have enough spare RAM double it to 512MB.

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• Virtual Hard Disk. Set this to dynamically use your current partition so you don’t have to re-partition your hard drive and lose space. Check ‘Boot Hard Disk (Primary Master)‘ and select ‘Create new hard disk‘.

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• Click ‘Next‘ until you see Hard Disk Storage Type at the top and select ‘Dynamically expanding storage‘.

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• Virtual Disk Location and Size. You can set Location and Size to whatever you want, just make sure you don’t put more size than your hard drive has total (minimum 5.00GB).

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• Select Finish. On Summary select Finish again.
• Right click on the newly created Slackware and select the Slackware ISO in 'Select Installation Media dialogue box ' .

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• Select OK.Select “Slackware” from the left and click “Start”.

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• From the text in the screenshot below, it’s asking if we want to install with extra parameters. In this case we don’t, so simply hit <ENTER> without typing anything.

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• Now time to setup root account and partition.

slackware login: root

root@slackware:/#cfdisk /dev/hda

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• There are a lot of steps to be done after this during the setup that involve creating Linux swap partitions, selecting keyboard maps,etc.
• This video is very useful for the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYIW8sFvxo
• Follow all the steps in the video which shows the setup process from the start in VirtualBox.

• Once install is complete, turn off the Virtual machine, click Machine -> Close… -> Power off the virtual machine from VirtualBox’s top menu bar.

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