Part I. Getting started

Table of Contents

1. About this book

1.1. Availability

1.2. Conventions

2. An introduction to Slackware Linux

2.1. What is Linux?

2.2. What is GNU/Linux?

2.3. What is Slackware Linux?

2.4. The UNIX philosophy

2.5. Free and open source software

2.6. Slackware Linux 12.0 features

2.7. Getting Slackware Linux

3. Sources of help

3.1. On your system

3.2. On the Internet

4. General concepts

4.1. Multitasking

4.2. Filesystem hierarchy

4.3. Devices

5. Installing Slackware Linux

5.1. Booting the installation CD-ROM

5.2. Partitioning a hard disk

5.3. Installing Slackware Linux

6. Custom installation

6.1. Partitioning a hard disk

6.2. Initializing and mounting filesystems

6.3. Installing packages

6.4. Post-install configuration

6.5. Automated installation script