CONTENTS: base devs etc idekern lilo scsikern sysvinit hdsetup base: Sets up the basic directory structure and adds a few important base: binaries such as GNU bash, mtools 2.0.7, and fdisk. base: base: base: base: base: base: base: base: base: devs: This package creates special files in the /dev directory that devs: represent your system's hardware. devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: devs: etc: System configuration files that go into the /etc directory. etc: etc: The /etc directory is traditionally the location where configuration etc: files and administration binaries are found. Under Linux, the binaries etc: have been moved out of the /etc directory and into the /sbin etc: directory; the /etc directory is now reserved for configuration files etc: only. etc: etc: etc: etc: idekern: Linux kernel version 1.0.8, without SCSI support. idekern: idekern: A Linux kernel for computers that do not need SCSI support. You MUST idekern: install either package "idekern", or package "scsikern" if you need idekern: SCSI support. If you fail to install either one of them, your system idekern: will not work. If you're not sure which package (idekern/scsikern) to idekern: install, you should probably use scsikern, since it supports the most idekern: hardware. If you don't have SCSI, the advantage of using the idekern idekern: kernel is mainly that your machine will boot faster. See the file idekern: 'idekern.log' for an exact list of included drivers. idekern: lilo: Lilo 0.14 lilo: lilo: The Linux Loader: boots Linux from your hard drive. lilo: lilo: lilo: lilo: lilo: lilo: lilo: lilo: passwd: Password utilities, and account maintenance programs. passwd: passwd: These utilities do not support shadow passwords, but seem more stable passwd: and secure than the versions that do. Mostly because of problems with passwd: the shadow versions of some of the networking utilities, and because passwd: most users have no need for shadow passwords anyway, Slackware has passwd: decided to follow MCC's lead and go with a non-shadow password passwd: system by default. scsikern: Linux kernel version 1.0.8, with SCSI + IDE support. scsikern: scsikern: This is a Linux kernel with full support for SCSI devices such as hard scsikern: drives, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives. If you have not already scsikern: installed the "idekern" kernel with IDE support only, then you must scsikern: install this package or your system will not boot. If you need this scsikern: kernel but have already installed "idekern", just go ahead and install scsikern: this package to replace the IDE kernel with a SCSI one. See the file scsikern: 'scsikern.log' for an exact list of included drivers. scsikern: scsikern: sysvinit: SysV style init v. 2.4 sysvinit: sysvinit: System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that control sysvinit: the booting and shutdown of your system. These support a number of sysvinit: system runlevels, each with a specific set of utilities spawned. For sysvinit: example, the normal system runlevel is 5, which starts getty on sysvinit: virtual consoles tty1 - tty6. Runlevel 6 starts xdm. Runlevel 0 shuts sysvinit: the system down. See the documentation in /usr/doc/SysVinit-2.4 and sysvinit: the scripts in /etc/rc.d for more information. sysvinit: sysvinit: hdsetup: The Slackware setup system v. 1.2.0 hdsetup: hdsetup: The full screen and tty versions of setup and pkgtool, two utilities hdsetup: included with Slackware that allow you to easily install software hdsetup: packages, remove software packages, and review the installed software hdsetup: packages. hdsetup: hdsetup: hdsetup: hdsetup: hdsetup: