Baba’s Blog

I installed Slackware Linux today for the first time.  Previously, my Linux installs had been with Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and some other mainstream, end user-centric distributions.  Slackware, however, was a bit more involved than my previous experiences.  The first thing that caught me off guard was partitioning the harddrive.  I’m used to having Gparted or a similar GUI program to do that with, but Slackware takes me to a command prompt and tells you to use cfdisk or fdisk.  Well, I’ve heard of fdisk, so I typed that and pressed enter, which started a command line tool that used terminology that totally threw me off.  Luckily, cfdisk is a slightly easier version of fdisk, so I was able to get it done.  I did get the install done, and I’ve got a brand new Linux box waiting on me tomorrow to do some seriously playing working on.  I’m thinking about installing a test run of Zimbra or a similar type open source app on it.