Re: [SLUG] Alternative installer for Slackware

From: Antonio De Leon (aldleonm@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 20:18:28 EDT


Hi,

Well, it uses the same kernel packaged of from Slackware, and the initrams
(installer/system boot) are all based on 32-bits plus
a little utility written in C. I guess you could checkout the source and
make an ISO, but i can almost bet it will crash building
busybox and encdb ( encdb is my first and only C program, i haven`t tested
it on a 64 ), apart from that it handles all things
Slackware ALMOST painlessly, basically it strips Slackware packages at
building time, kernel and modules for booting the CD
and exclusion of Slackware`s mkinitrd as it is handled differently.

But apart from that it shouldnt be that difficult to adapt. Here`s is a doc
if interested in building an ISO, http://tinyurl.com/ndeveldoc
The latest source is at
https://nemonico.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nemonico/devel/0.1.2a-updates ,
either way ill test a build
here.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com> wrote:

> Antonio De Leon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some time around 2006 i wanted to have the fancy things other major
>> distros
>> had in the installer for handling
>> disk configuration ( lvm , raid , luks ) , so from there i started to
>> write
>> an alternative installer for Slackware.
>>
>> If anyone has the need to install Slackware with LVM/RAID/LUKS with a
>> little
>> bit more ease,
>> could give a try to this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nemonico
>>
>>
> Thanks! Is that easily adaptable to Slamd64? I run a 64-bit install here.
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