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• I believe this has pulseaudio =(
• The ISOs are already prepared with isohybrid.

• TODO - Slackware Live Edition is a thing!

2016-11-07 - 14.2 32bit ∞

32bit smp

Still has freezing issues.

Tried default, on ~SCSI driver.

Tried hugesmp.s nomodeset, on "Triggering udev events"

tapped the power button

hangs on

clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc

hung twice, did a long poweroff / "colder" boot.

hangs on LUKS password prompt.

FAIL. With many attempts with just trying to boot into a setup USB, this simply does not work properly.

2016-11-05 - 14.2 64bit ∞

The setup USB:

• Using slackware-14.2-source-dvd.iso, prepared on a USB stick with a simple dd.
• I had to boot huge.s nomodeset to get past a bootup freeze just after one of the Freeing unused kernel memory messages.
• The font is shit, for some reason.
• The textmode resolution is low.
• There's no Links or Lynx.

• NTFS partitions can be mounted, but are read-only.

todo:

• dm-crypt and set up the LVM.
• Install the 64 bit distro.
• Install https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackers/files/ecryptfs-utils/ instead of my 'alien' version.

• Read https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide

notes:

• Enabling Encrypted Swap applies to people who only want that encrypted. dm-crypt handles everything, including the swap partition.

• For people who want to use a swapfile instead of a swap partition: Hibernation with LVM, LUKS and a Swapfile

  • Note that I've heard swap files are not supported on Btrfs.