Slackware 13.37slackware-13.37

Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011
Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released!

Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team,
the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing
a great forum for collaboration and testing.

The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.  Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com.  We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.

As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions,
and feedback.  :-)

Have fun!

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/README_LVM.TXT b/README_LVM.TXT
index 94cd5ad8..2318e696 100644
--- a/README_LVM.TXT
+++ b/README_LVM.TXT
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ installation to Logical Volumes.  In Slackware, the installer has never
 supported this, but the gurus usually would find a way to create logical

 volumes and install or migrate their Slackware onto those.  Having your

 Slackware installed fully on LVM was near impossible until Slackware 12.0.

-Slackware 13.1 has improved support for LVM built into the installer.

+Slackware 13.37 has improved support for LVM built into the installer.

 

 

 Preparing Logical Volumes (LV)

@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ LV's called 'root' and 'home'.  The first is going to contain the root partition
 

     After booting your computer from the Slackware CD/DVD/USB, and logging in

 as root, you run the following sequence of commands to create the Physical

-Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB

+Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 6GB

 (root) and 3GB (home) inside the VG:

 

   # pvcreate /dev/sda1

 

   # vgcreate myvg /dev/sda1

 

-  # lvcreate -L 5G -n root myvg

+  # lvcreate -L 6G -n root myvg

 

   # lvcreate -L 3G -n home myvg

 

@@ -60,13 +60,8 @@ Volume (PV), the Volume Group (VG) within that PV and two LV's of size 5GB
             # lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n home myvg

     ========================================================================

 

-    Next, we create the device nodes needed before activating the volumes, and

-finally we activate the volumes (the last command is not really needed because

-'setup' will run it anyway):

-

-  # vgscan --mknodes

-

-  # vgchange -ay

+    The device nodes for the logical volumes are created, and the volumes

+will be activated automatically when running lvcreate.

 

 This is all we need to do before running 'setup'.

 

@@ -110,9 +105,9 @@ We are going to 'chroot' into our fresh installation:
     Next, while we are in the chroot, create the initrd with LVM support -

 in the example command line I assume that the root filesystem is 'ext3',

 we used the LV '/dev/myvg/root' as the root device, and are running the

-Slackware 13.1 default SMP kernel '2.6.33.4-smp':

+Slackware 13.37 default SMP kernel '2.6.37.6-smp':

 

-  # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L

+  # mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/myvg/root -L

 

     The resulting initrd image will be written to the file '/boot/initrd.gz'

 by default.  We still need to tell lilo about this initrd, so open the

@@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ filename added by 'liloconfig' is '/boot/vmlinuz' which is a symbolic link to
 the huge SMP kernel.  Remember that we need a 'generic' kernel with the initrd.

 The end result should look somewhat like this:

 

-  image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp

+  image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.37.6-smp

     initrd = /boot/initrd.gz

     root = /dev/myvg/root

     label = linux

@@ -139,9 +134,9 @@ but it is safe to ignore these.
 

     =====================================================================

     An alternative method of creating the commandline for mkinitrd is

-    to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script that is

-    part of the mkinitrd package. This script will analyze your Slackware

-    installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline:

+    to use the '/usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh' script

+    which is part of the mkinitrd package.  This script will analyze your

+    Slackware installation and show you a useable 'mkinitrd' commandline:

 

     # /usr/share/mkinitrd/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh -r

 

@@ -188,7 +183,7 @@ This is enough to get it recognized by the setup program.  Have fun!
 

 ========================================================

 Author:

-  Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 25-jul-2009

+  Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 08-apr-2011

 Wiki URLs:

   http://www.slackware.com/~alien/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:setup

 Documentation: