[bitfolk] Slackware install instructions (work in progress)

Hello, A while back, a customer asked about installing Slackware. This happens from time to time, and my usual response is something like: "I'm afraid I haven't used Slackware since around 1995, wouldn't know where to begin on devising a Xen-compatible installer for it, and it's asked for so rarely that it probably wouldn't be the best use of time to work on it. However, we do have a rescue environment from which it should be possible to install pretty much any Linux distribution. Maybe you could try doing it that way? If you document on our wiki how you did it then that would be most appreciated." Usually I hear nothing back after that, but in this case I was pleased to see the customer did go ahead and install Slackware via the rescue environment and as far as I know they have had a working Slackware VPS for some time. They also created a wiki article on how they did it, and this morning I found time to go through it, tidy it up and try it out myself: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Installing_Slackware Unfortunately it did not work! It's very nearly there though, and I'm sure that someone with more recent Slackware knowledge can figure out what is wrong there. As I say, as far as I know there is at least one customer running Slackware via a procedure something like this. I've also put some of my concerns about the article as it stands in its discussion page: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Talk:Installing_Slackware So, if any of you are Slackware fans, you could help by: - Letting me know off-list or on the discussion page what might be wrong with the instructions. - Fixing the shortcomings of the article, small edits or large, please just go ahead. Log in with your usual credentials. If anyone is very very keen to see it working, I can give you access to the "slacktest1" account I used for that test; you could completely blow it away and start again if need be. Contact me off-list if interested. I am prepared to offer service credit for non-trivial assistance here. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting