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author Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2011-04-25 13:37:00 +0000
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-05-31 22:45:18 +0200
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Slackware 13.37slackware-13.37
Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun!
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ installation to Logical Volumes. In Slackware, the installer has never
supported this, but the gurus usually would find a way to create logical
volumes and install or migrate their Slackware onto those. Having your
Slackware installed fully on LVM was near impossible until Slackware 12.0.
-Slackware 13.1 has improved support for LVM built into the installer.
+Slackware 13.37 has improved support for LVM built into the installer.
Preparing Logical Volumes (LV)
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ LV's called 'root' and 'home'. The first is going to contain the root partition
After booting your computer from the Slackware CD/DVD/USB, and logging in
as root, you run the following sequence of commands to create the Physical
-Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB
+Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 6GB
(root) and 3GB (home) inside the VG:
# pvcreate /dev/sda1
# vgcreate myvg /dev/sda1
- # lvcreate -L 5G -n root myvg
+ # lvcreate -L 6G -n root myvg
# lvcreate -L 3G -n home myvg
@@ -60,13 +60,8 @@ Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB
# lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n home myvg
========================================================================
- Next, we create the device nodes needed before activating the volumes, and
-finally we activate the volumes (the last command is not really needed because
-'setup' will run it anyway):
-
- # vgscan --mknodes
-
- # vgchange -ay
+ The device nodes for the logical volumes are created, and the volumes
+will be activated automatically when running lvcreate.
This is all we need to do before running 'setup'.
@@ -110,9 +105,9 @@ We are going to 'chroot' into our fresh installation:
Next, while we are in the chroot, create the initrd with LVM support -
in the example command line I assume that the root filesystem is 'ext3',
we used the LV '/dev/myvg/root' as the root device, and are running the
-Slackware 13.1 default SMP kernel '2.6.33.4-smp':
+Slackware 13.37 default SMP kernel '2.6.37.6-smp':
- # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L
+ # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L
The resulting initrd image will be written to the file '/boot/initrd.gz'
by default. We still need to tell lilo about this initrd, so open the
@@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ filename added by 'liloconfig' is '/boot/vmlinuz' which is a symbolic link to
the huge SMP kernel. Remember that we need a 'generic' kernel with the initrd.
The end result should look somewhat like this:
- image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp
+ image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.37.6-smp
initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
root = /dev/myvg/root
label = linux
@@ -139,9 +134,9 @@ but it is safe to ignore these.
=====================================================================
An alternative method of creating the commandline for mkinitrd is
- to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script that is
- part of the mkinitrd package. This script will analyze your Slackware
- installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline:
+ to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script
+ which is part of the mkinitrd package. This script will analyze your
+ Slackware installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline:
# /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r
@@ -188,7 +183,7 @@ This is enough to get it recognized by the setup program. Have fun!
========================================================
Author:
- Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 25-jul-2009
+ Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 08-apr-2011
Wiki URLs:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:setup
Documentation: