[PLUG] Next Slackware Installation

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 21:07:07 UTC 2018


Yes that is correct.

You will select /dev/sda2 for your "root" partition. The installer will
autodetect your EFI and swap partitions and prompt when it is ready to set
them up.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 1:01 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I'm about to start installing Slackware 14.2 on my extra desktop
> machine. I recall from earlier instructions that I need to run fdisk -l.
> Here's the result:
>
> $ sudo fdisk -l
> [sudo] password for rsteff:
> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disklabel type: gpt
> Disk identifier: EE67CD19-07E4-4A27-AB6F-9842C59308F4
>
> Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
> /dev/sda1        2048    1050623    1048576   512M EFI System
> /dev/sda2     1050624 1936863231 1935812608 923.1G Linux filesystem
> /dev/sda3  1936863232 1953523711   16660480     8G Linux swap
>
> Am I correct in assuming that I can keep this partition layout and just
> install to /dev/sda2?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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