February 23, 201115 yr I added a new wiki article, updating the instructions for installing unRAID on a full Slackware distro for unRAID 5.0 beta 4. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_unRAID_5.0_on_a_full_Slackware_Distro Now don't do silly things like trying this on a system with important data.
February 23, 201115 yr Nice start on the article. On the latest kernels, invoking "make" does all the modules as well, so that's one step that could be removed. I was fine with using the included Slackware fusermount, so didn't need to copy over the unraid version. The same thing with unraid/etc/rc.d/rc.fuse. So all of step 3 under Copy unRAID scripts and executables could be removed. The only thing needed to be done was chmod +x on the rc.fuse script. Some additional files from "unraid/etc/" should be copied as well, including exports-, ntp.conf-, and unraid-version.
March 1, 201115 yr For a home setup.. I want to roll a full Slackware distro for my unRaid box. At this stage of the game... It is better to go with Slackware 13.1/unRaid 5.0 Beta than building a Slackware 12.2/unRaid 4.7 box?
March 1, 201115 yr For a home setup.. I want to roll a full Slackware distro for my unRaid box. At this stage of the game... It is better to go with Slackware 13.1/unRaid 5.0 Beta than building a Slackware 12.2/unRaid 4.7 box? 5.0 is still in dev and not considered stable. While it would be nice to use 5.0b right now I do not suggest doing it on your only unRAID machine. If you are planning to keep a backup of all your data even after it is on the unRAID machine then you are probably OK using 5.0b releases.
March 1, 201115 yr 5.0 is still in dev and not considered stable. While it would be nice to use 5.0b right now I do not suggest doing it on your only unRAID machine. If you are planning to keep a backup of all your data even after it is on the unRAID machine then you are probably OK using 5.0b releases. Which I am not.. :-) Thanks for the comment. I will roll with a 12.2/4.7 Slackware Server. Sounds like upgrading is going to be a pain for me in the future.. I might end up running stuff from a VM instance on Slackware instead of natively installing it on Slackware 12.2. To make my upgrade path easier when 5.0 comes out.
March 7, 201115 yr How fast does your system boot in to Slackware? How easy is it to update? With each new version of Unraid can you just unzip BZROOT and copy the files over to your hard-drive? Or do you have to recompile even if the kernel hasn't changed?
March 7, 201115 yr As far as boot time into Slackware, I can't recall since my system only reboots on kernel updates or hardware updates. It's very easy to update to newer unRAID versions once you've done it a few times. On each unRAID version update, I do a full diff between the contents of the old bzroot and the new bzroot. Then I make sure to apply the unRAID specific changed files. I mirror the Slackware distro I'm based off of locally and keep up to date with their changes using installpkg/upgradepkg. You do not copy over all the files from bzroot, only those specific to unRAID. If the MD kernel drivers have not changed, /usr/src/linux/drivers/md/, then you do not need to recompile your kernel. You merely need to copy over the unRAID specific changed files. This mostly involves files underneath the following hierarchies: /usr/local/sbin/, /usr/local/emhttp/, /root/, /etc/samba/, and limited files under /etc/rc.d/ and /etc.
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