[PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 01:11:46 UTC 2014


For virtual machines,  don't do any swap and only one partition.
 On Aug 2, 2014 5:46 PM, "Dick Steffens" <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I've downloaded slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso, and the md5sum matches
> slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.md5.
>
> I've created an empty virtual box virtual machine with 1024 MB memory
> and 8 GB virtual drive.
>
> I've pointed the virtual DVD drive to the above mentioned .iso and
> started the virtual machine.
>
> Where can I find instructions on partitioning that virtual 8 GB? The
> tutorials that I've found all tell me to partition the space for a
> primary partition and a swap partition, and assume that I know how to do
> that. Does anyone know where to find something that spells out what to
> call that virtual drive for fdisk? Also, since the purpose of the
> installation is just to get to know Slackware, what is the recommended
> swap partition size? I recall something about making it some multiple of
> the memory, but don't recall if that was 1:1 or something else.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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