On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:32:32AM -0800, Doug Sutherland thus spake: > I have been experimenting with a minimal slackware distribution > on microdrive. I decided to go as small as possible and run > with no swap partition and a bare bones linux runtime with just > basic utils, networking, and emacs. The whole system is 106MB. > Good. But in the interest of system stability should memory become scarce, I would reccommend a small swap file. It's a bit slower than a swap partition, but when you're swapping, the hit is so big it doesn't matter unless you depend on swap. The upside is you can easily add/remove/resize it on the fly, unlike a partition. Some info can be found in the mkswap man page. There might be a HOWTO too. > Extra Applications > > rpm.tgz 2640 K rpm-3.0.2 package manager I wouldn't reccommend installing RPMs on a SlackWare system due to differences in the filesystem layout. However, this could come in real handy to take source RPMs (SRPMS) apart to get patches and info from the specfile. It's possible to extract the raw files out of an RPM with cpio, but I've never done it before. Installing stuff on SlackWare has traditionnaly alway been something like this: tar xzvfp foo.tar.gz cd foo ./configure --help ./configure <options you want/need> make su make install exit This works 99% of the time. New software is installed under /usr/local/ to keep things organized and easy to backup. It you want to be fancy, you can install under a sub-dir, make a tarball and then use 'installpkg' to have SlackWare extract it at / to install it and make a list of installed files, so 'uninstallpkg' or 'pkgtool' can be used to remove it later. ...but this requires a compiler.... Eric LaForest -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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