[ARMedslack] First boot on Raspberry PI for Slackware 14.0 for ARM

[stanley garvey]

On Jan 26, 2013 17:28 "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> Thanks. As it happens I typed that out in a hurry. I bought a 16,
> which I did write out your image to. I'm going to leave that image on
> it, and work out how to reset the keyboard settings. (Even if I end up
> importing the keyboard management tools from 13.37 or earlier via
> source code files.)
> 
> I'll probably pick up the same card and try again with the installer
> image since it also complained about space sizing.
> ---------
> Hi, I don't know about keyboard management tools?
> see http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:window_managers:keyboard_layout
> that might help.
> 
> If you are new to Slackware you should read these great texts:
> http://code.google.com/p/slackbasics-i18n/
> http://slackbook.org/
> They where written a while ago, however Slackware does not change that
> much. (Thankfully).
> 
> I don't understand about David Spencers installer complaining about
> space sizing? Do you mean the software you are using to burn the
> image? It's intended that you use fdisk or cfdisk to remove the last
> partition and recreate it using the total space remaining on the
> sdcard. It's a great idea, I fell into the trap of putting the swap
> partion at the end of the drive in the superstitious belief that the
> seek times are higher at the end of a hard drive. I have no empirical
> evidence to support this and an sdcard is solid state anyway.
> Good luck and best regards.
> Stanley
> 
> 
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.armedslack.org/pipermail/armedslack/attachments/20130126/378dac85/attachment.html>