VagrantSlack3215Box

Steps to create a Slackware 15 (32-bit) vagrant box with LVM support.

Get ISO and install

   1 cd ~
   2 https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware-iso/slackware-15.0-iso/slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso
   3 sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel
   4 virtualbox &
   5 # start virtualbox 
   6 # new, name: slackware32-15
   7 # linux, other linux,  other linux(32-bit) , next 
   8 # 512 RAM, next 
   9 # Create a virtual hard disk now, create, VDI, next,  dynamically allocated, next,  64GB, create 
  10 # start VM 
  11 # choose slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso
  12 # start 
  13 # boot: <enter>
  14 # 1, select keyboard 
  15 # qwerty/pt.map 
  16 # 1 <enter>
  17 # login as root 
  18 # create 2 partitions ...
  19 fdisk /dev/sda 
  20 # n p 1 default 2048 +512M
  21 # n p 2 default 1050624 +63G
  22 # select Linux LVM
  23 # t 2 L 8e 
  24 # p
  25 # w
  26 # LVM stuff 
  27 pvcreate /dev/sda2
  28 vgcreate sysvg /dev/sda2
  29 lvcreate -L 62G -n root sysvg
  30 pvscan 
  31 setup 
  32 # go to target # /dev/sysvg/root select 
  33 # quick format, ok ext 4
  34 # select other linux partition /dev/sda1 
  35 # quick format, ext4 
  36 # select mount point for /dev/sda1 mount point /boot 
  37 # fstab 
  38 # /dev/sysvg/root for the root directory (/) 
  39 # /dev/sda1 for /boot 
  40 # mount point /boot 
  41 # install from slackware cd or dvd 
  42 # scanning for cd or dvd: auto 
  43 # only select package A and AP
  44 # full 
  45 # configure the system, yes 
  46 # make usb flash boot: skip ok 
  47 # install lilo, simple 
  48 # configure lilo: lilo standard 
  49 # optional lilo:  <blank> 
  50 # select lilo destination MBR 
  51 # GPM configuration: no 
  52 # select services: crond messagebus syslog 
  53 # custom screen fonts no 
  54 # hw clock set to utc no 
  55 # timezone configuration: europe/lisbon 
  56 # nvi classic BSD utf8 
  57 # set root password: vagrant 
  58 # exit setup, go to shell 
  59 
  60 
  61 
  62 #chroot /mnt # it is probably the LVM volume !
  63 #$( /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r )
  64 #KERNEL_VER=$(ls /lib/modules | head -n 1)
  65 #echo $KERNEL_VER
  66 # get file system
  67 #mkinitrd -c -k $KERNEL_VER -f ext4 -r /dev/sysvg/root -m dm-#mod:ata_piix:ahci:libata:sd_mod -L
  68 #
  69 # /boot/initrd.gz 
  70 #cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep -v "#"
  71 #
  72 #nano /etc/lilo.conf
  73 #append=" "
  74 #boot = /dev/sda
  75 #compact 
  76 #
  77 #prompt
  78 #timeout = 50
  79 #change-rules
  80 #  reset
  81 #vga = normal
  82 #image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic
  83 #  label = LinuxTest
  84 #  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  85 #  read-only
  86 # 
  87 #lilo
  88 #exit 
  89 
  90 vgscan --mknodes
  91 vgchange -ay
  92 mount /dev/sysvg/root /mnt
  93 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
  94 mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
  95 mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
  96 mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
  97 
  98 chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  99 # in chroot
 100 mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
 101 upgradepkg --reinstall /mnt/slackware/a/kernel-modules-5.15.19*.txz
 102 ls -l /lib/modules/5.15.19/kernel/fs/ext4/
 103 
 104 KERNEL_VER=$(ls /lib/modules | head -n 1)
 105 echo $KERNEL_VER
 106 mkinitrd -c -k $KERNEL_VER -f ext4 -r /dev/sysvg/root -m dm-mod:ext4 -L
 107 
 108 #Several modules added after mkinitrd
 109 #jdb2 mbcache ext4 dm-bufio dm-snapshot
 110 
 111 nano /etc/lilo.conf
 112 append=" "
 113 boot = /dev/sda
 114 compact 
 115 
 116 prompt
 117 timeout = 50
 118 change-rules
 119   reset
 120 vga = normal
 121 image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic
 122   label = LinuxTest
 123   initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
 124   read-only
 125 
 126 exit 
 127 
 128 lilo -r /mnt
 129 exit
 130 reboot

Test installation and install extra packages

   1 # login root:vagrant 
   2 df -h # used 1.4G 
   3 # mount DVD slack iso virtualbox 
   4 mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd 
   5 cd /mnt/dvd/slackware/
   6 installpkg k/kernel-source*txz 
   7 
   8 installpkg l/libunis*txz 
   9 installpkg l/gc-8*txz 
  10 installpkg l/ncurses-6*txz
  11 
  12 installpkg d/make*txz 
  13 installpkg d/gcc-11.2*txz 
  14 installpkg d/perl-5*txz 
  15 installpkg d/guile-3*txz 
  16 installpkg d/binutils*txz 
  17 
  18 installpkg ap/slackpkg-15*.txz 
  19 installpkg ap/sudo-*.txz
  20 
  21 installpkg n/network-scripts-15.0-noarch-18.txz
  22 installpkg n/net-tools-20181103_0eebece-x86_64-3.txz
  23 installpkg n/dhcp-4.4.2_P1-x86_64-1.txz
  24 installpkg n/iproute2*.txz
  25 installpkg n/libmnl-1*.txz
  26 installpkg n/dhcpcd-9*txz
  27 installpkg n/iputils-*.txz
  28 installpkg n/openssh-*.txz
  29 installpkg n/wget-1*.txz
  30 installpkg n/ca-certificates-2021*.txz
  31 installpkg n/openssl-1*.txz
  32 installpkg n/gnupg-1.4.23-x86_64-4.txz
  33 
  34 vi /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf 
  35 USE_DHCP[0]="yes" 
  36 
  37 /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1  # run command, it should get an ip
  38 ping -c 3 www.google.com # should get replies
  39 
  40 cd / 
  41 umount /mnt/dvd  
  42 # remove in virtualbox the ISO for slack
  43 reboot 
  44 
  45 # login root:vagrant 
  46 ping -c 3 www.sapo.pt

Install guest additions

   1 umount /mnt/dvd 
   2 # Menu "Devices" followed by "Insert guest additions cd image ". 
   3 mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
   4 cd /mnt/dvd 
   5 ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run 
   6 # unmount cd image in Virtualbox
   7 reboot 
   8 # login and reboot again 
   9

vagrant sudoers

   1 adduser vagrant # with pwd vagrant 
   2 groupadd sudo 
   3 
   4 usermod -aG sudo vagrant 
   5 visudo # insert after root user line
   6 
   7 vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
   8 
   9 exit 
  10 login vagrant:vagrant 
  11 
  12 sudo bash # should not ask for password 
  13 exit

UseDNS in SSH

   1 sudo bash 
   2 cd /etc/ssh 
   3 vi sshd_config 
   4 # disable line with "UseDNS" no 
   5 #UseDNS no
   6 /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart

SSH insecure pair in vagrant

   1 # in /home/vagrant folder as vagrant user
   2 mkdir ~/.ssh 
   3 cd ~/.ssh 
   4 wget -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/vagrant/main/keys/vagrant.pub
   5 mv vagrant.pub authorized_keys
   6 chmod 0600 authorized_keys 
   7 chmod 0700 /home/vagrant/.ssh 
   8 sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now

Disable audio in Virtualbox

Virtualbox, vm settings, audio, disable

Set first network adapter as a NAT one

Virtualbox, settings vm, adapter 1, NAT

Remove optical devices

Virtualbox, settings, storage, remove mounted optical drives

Create vagrant box

   1 cd /tmp 
   2 vagrant package --base slackware32-15
   3 ls
   4 # package.box
   5 vagrant box add --name slack32-15-box /tmp/package.box
   6 vagrant init slack32-15-box
   7 vagrant up
   8 vagrant ssh
   9 df -h
  10 # /dev/sysvg/root   61G  3.7G   54G   7% /
  11 md5sum /vagrant/package.box
  12 xxxxx  /vagrant/package.box

Update Slackware

   1 vagrant ssh 
   2 sudo bash 
   3 
   4 /sbin/removepkg zsh xorriso xfsdump xfsprogs  vorbis-tools usbutils unarj neofetch mariadb lxc mpg123  floppy gpm   floppy dvd+rw-tools  alsa-utils cdparanoia cdrdao cdrtools cups cups-filters  joe jove jed  amp dash dosfstools enscript flac genpower  ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gphoto2 gutenprint hplip isapnptools itstool jfsutils ksh93 lhasa madplay   mc minicom moc most mt-st mtx normalize ntfs-3g   opus-tools pamixer pciutils pcmciautils qpdf radeontool   reiserfsprogs rpm rpm2tgz sc sc-im seejpg soma sox squashfs terminus vbetool   kernel-generic-smp kernel-modules-smp   nvme-cli  efibootmgr efivar acct at bc bpe diffstat diffutils dmidecode groff htop libx86  linuxdoc-tools lm_sensors lsof man-db man-pages powertop rzip screen sqlite sysstat  texinfo tmux usbmuxd  ghostscript-fonts  ghostscript-fonts-std  btrfs-progs  elilo  terminus-font  squashfs-tools  a2ps  dc3dd ddrescue dmapi   f2fs-tools inxi ispell   exfatprogs   kernel-huge   kernel-huge-smp   sdparm seejpeg sdparm undervolt  lsscsi elvis vim  hdparm  kernel-source
   5 
   6 cd /var/log/packages
   7 grep -i -H "package location" *  | grep "\/ap\/"
   8 #nano-6.0-i586-1:PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/slackware/ap/nano-6.0-i586-1.txz
   9 #vim-8.2.4256-i586-1:PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/slackware/ap/vim-8.2.4256-i586-1.txz
  10 
  11 exit
  12 # check running VM name in virtualbox to use in --base
  13 vagrant package --base tmp_default_1792863453005_55244 
  14 # vagrant package # create package.box after /sbin/removepkg
  15

   1 export SLACK_MIRROR="https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0"
   2 cd /tmp 
   3 wget -k $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/openssl-1.1.1m-i586-1.txz
   4 wget -k $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz
   5 /sbin/installpkg ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz
   6 /sbin/installpkg openssl-1.1.1m-i586-1.txz
   7 /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates --fresh
   8 
   9 echo "$SLACK_MIRROR/" >>  /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
  10 
  11 wget  $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/gnupg-1.4.23-i586-4.txz
  12 /sbin/installpkg gnupg-1.4.23-i586-4.txz
  13 /usr/sbin/slackpkg update gpg 
  14 /usr/sbin/slackpkg update
  15 /usr/sbin/slackpkg upgrade-all
  16 exit
  17 exit 
  18 vagrant reload

-  ⇤ ← Revision 2 as of 2026-10-17 09:36:33 → 
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  Editor: vitor
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+   ← Revision 42 as of 2026-10-24 19:18:08 → ⇥
  Size: 8383
  Editor: vitor
  Comment:
-Deletions are marked like this.
+Additions are marked like this.
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+sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel
virtualbox &
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-# linux other linux 32-bit , next
+# linux, other linux,  other linux(32-bit) , next
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+# select Linux LVM
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-# target # /dev/sysvg/root select
+# go to target # /dev/sysvg/root select
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+Line 44:
-# mount point /boot
+# select mount point for /dev/sda1 mount point /boot
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+Line 50:
-# auto 
# package A
+# scanning for cd or dvd: auto 
# only select package A and AP
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+Line 56:
-# lilo standard 
# optional <blank> 
# select lilo dstination MBR 
# gpm configuration: no 
# services crond messagebus syslog
+# configure lilo: lilo standard 
# optional lilo:  <blank> 
# select lilo destination MBR 
# GPM configuration: no 
# select services: crond messagebus syslog
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+Line 63:
-# europe/lisbon
+# timezone configuration: europe/lisbon
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+Line 65:
-# set root passw vagrant 
# exit shell 

chroot /mnt 
$( /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r )
+# set root password: vagrant 
# exit setup, go to shell 



#chroot /mnt # it is probably the LVM volume !
#$( /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r )
#KERNEL_VER=$(ls /lib/modules | head -n 1)
#echo $KERNEL_VER
# get file system
#mkinitrd -c -k $KERNEL_VER -f ext4 -r /dev/sysvg/root -m dm-#mod:ata_piix:ahci:libata:sd_mod -L
#
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-cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep -v "#"

vi /etc/lilo.conf
# comment root 
# root=
+#cat /etc/lilo.conf | grep -v "#"
#
#nano /etc/lilo.conf
#append=" "
#boot = /dev/sda
#compact 
#
#prompt
#timeout = 50
#change-rules
#  reset
#vga = normal
#image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic
#  label = LinuxTest
#  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
#  read-only
# 
#lilo
#exit 

vgscan --mknodes
vgchange -ay
mount /dev/sysvg/root /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys

chroot /mnt /bin/bash
# in chroot
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
upgradepkg --reinstall /mnt/slackware/a/kernel-modules-5.15.19*.txz
ls -l /lib/modules/5.15.19/kernel/fs/ext4/

KERNEL_VER=$(ls /lib/modules | head -n 1)
echo $KERNEL_VER
mkinitrd -c -k $KERNEL_VER -f ext4 -r /dev/sysvg/root -m dm-mod:ext4 -L

#Several modules added after mkinitrd
#jdb2 mbcache ext4 dm-bufio dm-snapshot

nano /etc/lilo.conf
append=" "
boot = /dev/sda
compact 

prompt
timeout = 50
change-rules
  reset
vga = normal
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-timeout=50
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz 
label=Linuxtest

lilo
+  label = LinuxTest
  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  read-only
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+lilo -r /mnt
exit
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+Line 146:
-# error while loading libunistring.so.2 
mount DVD slack iso virtualbox
+# mount DVD slack iso virtualbox
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-cd /mnt/dvd/slackware64/
+cd /mnt/dvd/slackware/
installpkg k/kernel-source*txz
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-installpkg k/kernel-source*txz 
installpkg d/make-4.3*txz
+installpkg l/gc-8*txz 
installpkg l/ncurses-6*txz

installpkg d/make*txz
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-installpkg l/gc-8*txz
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-installpkg l/ncurses-6*txz
+installpkg ap/sudo-*.txz
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-installpkg ap/sudo-*.txz
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-/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
+/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1  # run command, it should get an ip
ping -c 3 www.google.com # should get replies
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+# remove in virtualbox the ISO for slack
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-ping -c3 www.sapo.pt 
ping www.sapo.pt
+ping -c 3 www.sapo.pt
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-adduser vagrant # com pwd vagrant
+adduser vagrant # with pwd vagrant
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-visudo
+visudo # insert after root user line
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+#UseDNS no
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+# in /home/vagrant folder as vagrant user
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-wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/vagrant/main/keys/vagrant.pub
+wget -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/vagrant/main/keys/vagrant.pub
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-shutdown -h now
+sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now
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-vagrant package --base slackware64-15
+vagrant package --base slackware32-15
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-vagrant box add --name slack64-15-box /tmp\package.box
vagrant init slack64-15-box
+vagrant box add --name slack32-15-box /tmp/package.box
vagrant init slack32-15-box
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-# /dev/mapper/sysvg-root   61G  3.0G   55G   6% /
+# /dev/sysvg/root   61G  3.7G   54G   7% /
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-== Update Slackware 64 ==
+== Update Slackware ==
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+/sbin/removepkg zsh xorriso xfsdump xfsprogs  vorbis-tools usbutils unarj neofetch mariadb lxc mpg123  floppy gpm   floppy dvd+rw-tools  alsa-utils cdparanoia cdrdao cdrtools cups cups-filters  joe jove jed  amp dash dosfstools enscript flac genpower  ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gphoto2 gutenprint hplip isapnptools itstool jfsutils ksh93 lhasa madplay   mc minicom moc most mt-st mtx normalize ntfs-3g   opus-tools pamixer pciutils pcmciautils qpdf radeontool   reiserfsprogs rpm rpm2tgz sc sc-im seejpg soma sox squashfs terminus vbetool   kernel-generic-smp kernel-modules-smp   nvme-cli  efibootmgr efivar acct at bc bpe diffstat diffutils dmidecode groff htop libx86  linuxdoc-tools lm_sensors lsof man-db man-pages powertop rzip screen sqlite sysstat  texinfo tmux usbmuxd  ghostscript-fonts  ghostscript-fonts-std  btrfs-progs  elilo  terminus-font  squashfs-tools  a2ps  dc3dd ddrescue dmapi   f2fs-tools inxi ispell   exfatprogs   kernel-huge   kernel-huge-smp   sdparm seejpeg sdparm undervolt  lsscsi elvis vim  hdparm  kernel-source

cd /var/log/packages
grep -i -H "package location" *  | grep "\/ap\/"
#nano-6.0-i586-1:PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/slackware/ap/nano-6.0-i586-1.txz
#vim-8.2.4256-i586-1:PACKAGE LOCATION: /var/log/mount/slackware/ap/vim-8.2.4256-i586-1.txz

exit
# check running VM name in virtualbox to use in --base
vagrant package --base tmp_default_1792863453005_55244 
# vagrant package # create package.box after /sbin/removepkg

}}}

{{{#!highlight sh
export SLACK_MIRROR="https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0"
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-wget --no-check-certificate  https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/n/openssl-1.1.1m-x86_64-1.txz
wget --no-check-certificate  https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/n/ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz
+wget -k $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/openssl-1.1.1m-i586-1.txz
wget -k $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz
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-/sbin/installpkg openssl-1.1.1m-x86_64-1.txz
+/sbin/installpkg openssl-1.1.1m-i586-1.txz
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-echo "https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackware/slackware64-15.0/" >>  /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
wget  https://ftp.rnl.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/n/gnupg-1.4.23-x86_64-4.txz
/sbin/installpkg gnupg-1.4.23-x86_64-4.txz
+echo "$SLACK_MIRROR/" >>  /etc/slackpkg/mirrors

wget  $SLACK_MIRROR/slackware/n/gnupg-1.4.23-i586-4.txz
/sbin/installpkg gnupg-1.4.23-i586-4.txz
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-}}}
+exit
exit 
vagrant reload 

}}}