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Slackware64

64 bit version of Slackware

Installation of Slackware64 14.0 in VirtualBox

Physical machine: HP EliteBook 8470p core i5

Virtual machine:

Memory 6GB //4GB
Disc 64 GB
Video memory 128 MB
Settings
- System
  - Processor
    - Enable PAE/NX:true
    - Nr Processors: 3 #2
  - Acceleration
    - Enable VT-x/AMD-V: true
    - Enable nested paging: true
- General
  - Advanced
    - Mini-Toolbar: disabled # Ctrl+F

Steps:

Boot from DVD ISO of Slackware64
Choose keyboard pt-latin1
Login with root
cfdisk
new, primary, size 64719
new, primary, size 4002.97
Set sda1 as bootable
type sda1, 83, Linux
type sda1, 82, Linux swap
write, yes, quit
setup, addswap, sda2
check bad blocks? no
select sda1, format quick, ext4 filesystem
Install from CD or DVD, auto, /dev/sr0
All packages, full
skip USB bootstick
Simple LILO, frame buffer 1024x768x64K
UTF-8 console? yes
MBR LILO destination
Mouse imps2
Gpm? No
Network? no
Services, rc.fuse, rc.inetd, rc.messagebus, rc.syslog, rc.sshd
Custom screen fonts? no
Hardware clock set to UTC
Timezone: Europe/Lisbon
xinitrc.wmaker
Root pass? yes
Reboot
In Virtualbox export the virtual machine as a OVA file

Portuguese console keyboard

Create the file /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap:

# Load the keyboard map.  More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then
 /usr/bin/loadkeys pt-latin1.map
fi

Enable login by KDM

Edit the file /etc/inittab and change the initlevel from 3 to 4

id:4:initdefault

Edit the file /etc/kde/kdm/Xsetup and add the line

setxkbmap pt
xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1366x768

Change VESA frame buffer resolution to 1280x960

Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf

vga = 844

Run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf to update LILO config on the MBR.

xterm with Zenburn look and font size 14

Create file ~/.Xresources:

xterm*foreground: rgb:F6/F3/E8
xterm*background: rgb:40/40/40
xterm*font: *-fixed-*-*-*-14-*

Reload the definitions with xrdb ~/.Xresources

X configuration for 1280x960

DontZap as true disables the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Hard reset X).

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "VESA Framebuffer"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
   DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "true"
EndSection

Enable network DHCP client eth0

Edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""

VirtualBox port forward

Network
NAT
Port forwarding
- Rule1
- TCP
- Host port 2222
- Guest port 22

Java installation

Get from Oracle jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin
mv jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin /usr/java
./jdk-6u39-linux-x64.bin # run it
Change /etc/profile

   1 export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_39" 
   2 PATH="(...):JAVA_HOME/bin"

Get also http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u60-b19/jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz

cp jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/java
cd /usr/java
tar xvzf jdk-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz

Tomcat installation

mkdir -p /usr/local/tomcat
wget http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.54/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.54.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-tomcat-7.0.54.tar.gz
useradd tomcat
chown tomcat * -R
chgrp users * -R

Edit /usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml

   1   <role rolename="admin"/>
   2   <role rolename="manager"/>
   3   <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
   4   <user username="admin" password="12345678" roles="admin,manager,manager-gui"/>

Start and stop tomcat with user tomcat:

/usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

JBoss 5.1.0

adduser jboss # pass 12345678
cd /usr/local/
unzip jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip #
ln -s jboss-5.1.0.GA jboss
cp jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d
mv /etc/init.d/jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d/jboss
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_39 /usr/local/jdk
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/jboss
cd /usr/local/jboss
chown jboss * -R
chgrp users * -R
/etc/init.d/jboss start # as root, JBoss should run in jboss user context
/etc/init.d/jboss stop # as root, JBoss should run in jboss user context

Default runlevels (2 3 4 5):

ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc2.d/S99jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc2.d/K10jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc3.d/S99jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc3.d/K10jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc4.d/S99jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc4.d/K10jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc5.d/S99jboss
ln -s /etc/init.d/jboss /etc/rc5.d/K10jboss

In the file /etc/init.d/jboss change JBOSS_CONF from default to all

Glassfish 4.0

mkdir -p /opt/appsrv
wget http://download.java.net/glassfish/4.0/release/glassfish-4.0.zip
unzip glassfish-4.0.zip
cd glassfish-4.0
chown vitor *- R
chgrp users *- R
nano bin/asadmin

   1 AS_INSTALL=`dirname "$0"`/../glassfish
   2 AS_INSTALL_LIB="$AS_INSTALL/lib"
   3 . "${AS_INSTALL}/config/asenv.conf"
   4 AS_JAVA=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_60
   5 JAVA_HOME==/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_60
   6 #Depends upon Java from ../config/asenv.conf
   7 if [ ${AS_JAVA} ]; then
   8     JAVA=${AS_JAVA}/bin/java
   9 fi
  10 
  11 exec "$JAVA" -jar "$AS_INSTALL_LIB/client/appserver-cli.jar" "$@"

bin/asadmin start-domain # if first time set the admin pass
Access http://localhost:4848

Mysql

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld
mysql_install_db --user=mysql
chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql
/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation
set root password: Y
Remove anonymous users: Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
mysql -p
show databases;
exit

Bash settings

File ~/.bashrc

   1 alias ls='ls --color'
   2 #PS1="\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A \u@\H:\w \r\n\$"
   3 #PS1="\e[0;33m\]\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A\[\e[m\]\r\n\e[0;32m\]\u@\H:\w\$\[\e[m\] "
   4 PS1="\e[0;33m\]\D{%Y-%m-%d}T\A\[\e[m\] \e[0;32m\]\u@\H:\w\r\n\$\[\e[m\] "
   5 
   6 export PATH="/home/vitor/narwhal/bin:$PATH"

VirtualBox guest additions

Insert guest additions CD image
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Avoids mouse jumping around on X.

Also when using the guest VM, press Ctrl+I to disable mouse integration, to avoid mouse jumping around.

Apache Maven installation

cd /usr/local
wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
ln -s apache-maven-3.2.1-bin maven
Add /usr/local/maven/bin to PATH on /etc/profile or ~./bashrc

Change display to 1600x900x32

Run VBoxManage in the host

VBoxManage setextradata "Slack64v14" "CustomVideoMode1" "1600x900x32"

Change /etc/lilo.conf

vga=864

Change /etc/X11/xorg.org to have "1600x900" in the several modes.

Modes "1600x900" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

Netbeans 7.4

Java/Netbeans

Squirrel

Thunderbird

Move the local folder to ~/ThunderbirdMail.

vi

vim Zenburn

Emacs

Emacs Zenburn

Multilib 32-bit

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

As root:

lftp -c 'open http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ ; mirror -c -e 14.1'
cd 14.1
upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new *.t?z
upgradepkg --install-new slackware64-compat32/*-compat32/*.t?z

Reboot

Skype installation

wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/local/skype
cp skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2 /usr/local/skype/
cd /usr/local/skype/
tar xvif skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
cd /usr/local/skype/skype-4.3.0.37
mv * ../
cd ..
rmdir skype-4.3.0.37
chmod 755 skype
I agree

Apply portuguese keyboard on connecting a keyboard

Sometimes a USB keyboard can disconnect and connect on it's own, and loose the settings. Check the file to see if the settings are applied /var/log/Xorg.0.log

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier         "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    #MatchProduct       "keyboard"
    Option  "XkbLayout"  "pt"
EndSection

Install the VM in a Lenovo Thinkpad L440 Core i5

Init with runlevel 1

Linux init=/bin/bash root=/dev/sda1 rw

Changes in display

Run VBoxManage in the host

VBoxManage setextradata "Slack64v14" "CustomVideoMode1" "1366x768x32"

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Module"
    Load        "dbe"   # Double buffer extension
    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    MatchIsPointer "on"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
    Driver      "vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "VESA Framebuffer"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"

   DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes  "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes  "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes  "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes  "1366x768"  "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "true"
EndSection

Changes in sound settings

Change from Host audio driver from Null to Windows Direct Sound
Audio controller: ICH AC97

Pidgin-sipe build

cd /tmp
wget http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/network/pidgin-sipe.tar.gz
tar xvzf pidgin-sipe.tar.gz
cd pidgin-sipe
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sipe/pidgin-sipe-1.13.3.tar.bz2
su
./pidgin-sipe.SlackBuild
installpkg /tmp/pidgin-sipe-1.13.3-x86_64-2_SBo.tgz # pidgin-sipe-1.13.3-x86_64-2_SBo.tgz

Local DNS

chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf
nano /etc/resolv.conf

domain bitarus.allowed.org
nameserver 127.0.0.1

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Named/bind configuration in /etc/named.conf

options {
 directory "/var/named";
 // Google DNS servers
 forwarders{8.8.8.8;8.8.4.4;}; 
};

// a caching only nameserver config
zone "." IN {
 type hint;
 file "caching-example/named.root";
};

zone "localhost" IN {
 type master;
 file "caching-example/localhost.zone";
 allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
 type master;
 file "caching-example/named.local";
 allow-update { none; };
};

logging {
  channel my_named_channel {
  file "/tmp/named.log";
  // syslog info;
  // Set the severity to dynamic to see all the debug messages.
  severity dynamic;
  print-time yes;
  print-severity yes;
  print-category yes;
 };
 category queries {   my_named_channel; };
 category client {   my_named_channel; };
 category default { default_syslog; };
};

Start/stop with /etc/rc.d/rc.bind start /etc/rc.d/rc.bind stop

Portable VirtualBox

http://www.vbox.me/

Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation.

VirtualBox needs several kernel drivers installed and needs to start several services: if the drivers and services are not already installed you’ll need administrator rights to run Portable-VirtualBox.

Packages updates Slackware64 14.1

Check patches/packages and patches/PACKAGES.TXT for the desired Slackware version.
URL for Slackware 14.1 ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/

Get packages to be updated

mkdir -p ~/Downloads/slack6414_1patches
cd ~/Downloads/slack6414_1patches
wget ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/PACKAGES.TXT

cat PACKAGES.TXT | grep "PACKAGE NAME" | awk '//{print $3}'| sed 's/.txz//g' | xargs -i ls /var/log/packages/{} &> /tmp/out.txt ;mkdir -p /tmp/packages;cd /tmp/packages; cat /tmp/out.txt | grep cannot | awk '//{print $4}' | sed 's/\/var\/log\/packages\///g' | sed 's/://g' | xargs -i wget ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/{}.txz

mv * ~/Downloads/slack6414_1patches

Packages updates Slackware64 14.2

Check patches/packages and patches/PACKAGES.TXT for the desired Slackware version.
URL for Slackware64 14.2 ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/

Get packages to be updated

   1 # as root
   2 URL_PATCHES=ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/
   3 PATCHES_FOLDER=~/Downloads/slack14_2_64patches
   4 mkdir -p $PATCHES_FOLDER
   5 cd $PATCHES_FOLDER
   6 rm PACKAGES.TXT*
   7 wget $URL_PATCHES/PACKAGES.TXT
   8 head PACKAGES.TXT
   9 
  10 cat PACKAGES.TXT | grep "PACKAGE NAME" | awk '//{print $3}'| sed 's/.txz//g' | xargs -i ls /var/log/packages/{} &> /tmp/outpatches.txt ;mkdir -p /tmp/packages;cd /tmp/packages; cat /tmp/outpatches.txt | grep cannot | awk '//{print $4}' | sed 's/\/var\/log\/packages\///g' | sed 's/://g' | sed "s/'//g" | xargs -i wget $URL_PATCHES/packages/{}.txz
  11 
  12 # should only have the missing patches to install 
  13 cd /tmp/packages
  14 ls *.txz | xargs -i upgradepkg {} 
  15 mv * $PATCHES_FOLDER

Update kernel

   1 function get_packages
   2 {
   3   cd /tmp/packages
   4   BASE=http://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/linux-4.4.172
   5   wget $BASE/kernel-firmware-20190118_a8b75ca-noarch-1.txz
   6   wget $BASE/kernel-generic-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
   7   wget $BASE/kernel-headers-4.4.172-x86-1.txz
   8   wget $BASE/kernel-huge-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
   9   wget $BASE/kernel-modules-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
  10   wget $BASE/kernel-source-4.4.172-noarch-1.txz
  11 }
  12 
  13 function update
  14 {
  15   cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.old20190305
  16   ls /boot
  17   cd /tmp/packages
  18   upgradepkg kernel-*.txz
  19   # uname -a says Linux c850d 4.4.14 #1 SMP
  20   /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -k 4.4.172 | bash
  21   ls /boot
  22   cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep image
  23   echo "Check content, image should have kernel 4.4.172"
  24   read
  25   echo "Going to execute lilo"
  26   lilo
  27   mv *.txz /root/Downloads/slack14_2_64patches
  28 }
  29 
  30 get_packages
  31 #update
  32

LVM + virtualbox

http://www.unixwerk.eu/linux/slack/lvm2root.html

   1 wget http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware-iso/slackware64-14.2-iso/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
   2 # http://www.slackware.com/~alien/archive/13.1/README_LVM.TXT
   3 # virtualbox 
   4 # Slack64LVM
   5 # new linux other linxu 64-bit 
   6 # 512 RAM
   7 # VDI fixed size 10GB 
   8 # start 
   9 # select slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
  10 # start 
  11 # boot: <enter>
  12 # 1, select keyboard 
  13 # qwerty/pt.map 
  14 # 1 <enter>
  15 # root 
  16 # create 2 partitions ...
  17 fdisk /dev/sda 
  18 # n p 1 +512M
  19 # n p 2 +9.5G
  20 # t 2 L 8e 
  21 # w
  22 # LVM stuff 
  23 pvcreate /dev/sda2
  24 vgcreate sysvg /dev/sda2
  25 lvcreate -L 9G -n root sysvg
  26 pvscan 
  27 # setup 
  28 # target 
  29 # /dev/sysvg/root 
  30 # quick format, ext 4
  31 # /dev/sda1 
  32 # quick format, ext4 
  33 # mount point /boot 
  34 
  35 # fstab 
  36 # /dev/sysvg/root for the root directory (/) 
  37 # /dev/sda1 for /boot 
  38 # mount point /boot 
  39 # install from dvd 
  40 # auto 
  41 # package A N 
  42 # full 
  43 # skip simple ok 
  44 # no utf8 
  45 # mbr 
  46 # imps2 
  47 # no gpm
  48 # configure net, yes 
  49 # hostname darkstar example.org dhcp yes 
  50 # inetd ssh syslog messagebus 
  51 # no custom fonts 
  52 # utc no hw clock 
  53 # no reboot 
  54 
  55 chroot /mnt 
  56 $( /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r )
  57 # /boot/initrd.gz 
  58 cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep -v "#"
  59 vi /etc/lilo.conf
  60 image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic 
  61   # comment root 
  62   # root=
  63   initrd=/boot/initrd.gz 
  64   label=Linuxtest
  65 
  66 lilo
  67 exit 
  68 reboot 
  69 # login
  70 df -h # used 959M
  71 ping www.sapo.pt 
  72 
  73 # Install guest additions
  74 mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
  75 cd /mnt/cdrom
  76 ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
  77 reboot

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+xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1366x768
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-[[Netbeans]]
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+=== Changes in sound settings ===
 * Change from Host audio driver from Null to Windows Direct Sound
 * Audio controller: ICH AC97
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+== Packages updates Slackware64 14.2 ==
 * Check patches/packages and patches/PACKAGES.TXT for the desired Slackware version.
 * URL for Slackware64 14.2 ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/
Get packages to be updated
{{{#!highlight bash 
# as root
URL_PATCHES=ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/
PATCHES_FOLDER=~/Downloads/slack14_2_64patches
mkdir -p $PATCHES_FOLDER
cd $PATCHES_FOLDER
rm PACKAGES.TXT*
wget $URL_PATCHES/PACKAGES.TXT
head PACKAGES.TXT

cat PACKAGES.TXT | grep "PACKAGE NAME" | awk '//{print $3}'| sed 's/.txz//g' | xargs -i ls /var/log/packages/{} &> /tmp/outpatches.txt ;mkdir -p /tmp/packages;cd /tmp/packages; cat /tmp/outpatches.txt | grep cannot | awk '//{print $4}' | sed 's/\/var\/log\/packages\///g' | sed 's/://g' | sed "s/'//g" | xargs -i wget $URL_PATCHES/packages/{}.txz

# should only have the missing patches to install 
cd /tmp/packages
ls *.txz | xargs -i upgradepkg {} 
mv * $PATCHES_FOLDER

}}}

== Update kernel ==
{{{
#!highlight bash
function get_packages
{
  cd /tmp/packages
  BASE=http://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/linux-4.4.172
  wget $BASE/kernel-firmware-20190118_a8b75ca-noarch-1.txz
  wget $BASE/kernel-generic-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
  wget $BASE/kernel-headers-4.4.172-x86-1.txz
  wget $BASE/kernel-huge-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
  wget $BASE/kernel-modules-4.4.172-x86_64-1.txz
  wget $BASE/kernel-source-4.4.172-noarch-1.txz
}

function update
{
  cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.old20190305
  ls /boot
  cd /tmp/packages
  upgradepkg kernel-*.txz
  # uname -a says Linux c850d 4.4.14 #1 SMP
  /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -k 4.4.172 | bash
  ls /boot
  cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep image
  echo "Check content, image should have kernel 4.4.172"
  read
  echo "Going to execute lilo"
  lilo
  mv *.txz /root/Downloads/slack14_2_64patches
}

get_packages
#update
}}}

== LVM + virtualbox ==
 * http://www.unixwerk.eu/linux/slack/lvm2root.html
{{{#!highlight bash
wget http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware-iso/slackware64-14.2-iso/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
# http://www.slackware.com/~alien/archive/13.1/README_LVM.TXT
# virtualbox 
# Slack64LVM
# new linux other linxu 64-bit 
# 512 RAM
# VDI fixed size 10GB 
# start 
# select slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
# start 
# boot: <enter>
# 1, select keyboard 
# qwerty/pt.map 
# 1 <enter>
# root 
# create 2 partitions ...
fdisk /dev/sda 
# n p 1 +512M
# n p 2 +9.5G
# t 2 L 8e 
# w
# LVM stuff 
pvcreate /dev/sda2
vgcreate sysvg /dev/sda2
lvcreate -L 9G -n root sysvg
pvscan 
# setup 
# target 
# /dev/sysvg/root 
# quick format, ext 4
# /dev/sda1 
# quick format, ext4 
# mount point /boot 

# fstab 
# /dev/sysvg/root for the root directory (/) 
# /dev/sda1 for /boot 
# mount point /boot 
# install from dvd 
# auto 
# package A N 
# full 
# skip simple ok 
# no utf8 
# mbr 
# imps2 
# no gpm
# configure net, yes 
# hostname darkstar example.org dhcp yes 
# inetd ssh syslog messagebus 
# no custom fonts 
# utc no hw clock 
# no reboot 

chroot /mnt 
$( /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r )
# /boot/initrd.gz 
cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep -v "#"
vi /etc/lilo.conf
image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic 
  # comment root 
  # root=
  initrd=/boot/initrd.gz 
  label=Linuxtest

lilo
exit 
reboot 
# login
df -h # used 959M
ping www.sapo.pt 

# Install guest additions
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
reboot 
}}}