EFI and Grub
Posted: 2022-11-30 Filed under: system | Tags: efi, ELILO, grub, UEFI 2 CommentsI’ve been tinkering with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M80Q. I disabled secure boot and since there is no legacy mode in the BIOS, I decided that it’s time to install Slackware with EFI. However, after the install was done, ELILO failed to boot the OS. So, I decided to use Grub.
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GitHub direct download links
Posted: 2022-10-31 Filed under: misc, network | Tags: direct, downloads, git, github, link Leave a commentAs a maintainer at SlackBuilds.org, I would like to have a handy place to store some “problematic” sources and some other files. Once upon a time, I used SourceForge, but I wanted to have it at Slackalaxy’s GitHub repo. Uploading tarballs is fine, however what should be the download link to put in, for example, a *.info file?
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A chroot installation environment
Posted: 2022-09-10 Filed under: system | Tags: chroot, vm 5 CommentsI have been having annoying problems with VirtualBox, summed up already at LQ, so I won’t go through them again. I need a clean installation of Slackware (x86_64 and x86), therefor, I decided to learn how to set it up in a chroot environment.
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sboutils 0.01_beta
Posted: 2022-08-16 Filed under: misc, slackbuilds, system | Tags: SBo, sboutils, slackbuilds Leave a commentSince I moved back to Slackware as my major system, I wanted to make SlackBuild scripts and SlackBuilds.org a bit easier to deal with. Therefore I wrote myself several small tools, collectively called sboutils. I will be busy in the following weeks, so I decided to call its current stage as first release candidate 0.01_beta.
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Hello again, Slackware…
Posted: 2022-08-06 Filed under: misc | Tags: CRUX, slackware 1 CommentAfter a year on CRUX as my main system, I made the decision to move back to Slackware. I really hope that such a long gap between releases will not happen again. I have several reasons for that, outlined below.
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