This is a root file system for Slackware 11.0 for use with User Mode Linux. Created by Dave Houlden (david.houlden@gmail.com). 3rd October 2006. The file system does not contain a complete installation of all Slackware packages. Extra packages can be installed as needed using the Slackware package utilities. ******************************************************************************* * Modified 9th November 2008 to apply updates for the following packages. * * bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack11.0 * * glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-11_slack11.0 * * openssh-5.1p1-i486-1_slack11.0 * * openssl-solibs-0.9.8h-i486-1_slack11.0 * ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* * Modified 15th September 2007 to apply updates for the following packages. * * openssh-4.7p1-i486-1_slack11.0 * ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* * Modified 27th July 2007 to apply updates for the following packages. * * glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-7_slack11.0 * * tar-1.16-i486-1_slack11.0 * ******************************************************************************* I created root_fs_slack11.0 as follows. dd if=/dev/null of=root_fs_slack11.0 bs=1024 seek=$((1024*200)) mke2fs -j root_fs_slack11.0 mount -o loop root_fs_slack11.0 /mnt/hd Run installpkg with -root /mnt/hd and installed the following. aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-9 bash-3.1.017-i486-1 bin-11.0-i486-3 bzip2-1.0.3-i486-3 coreutils-5.97-i486-1 dcron-2.3.3-i486-5 devs-2.3.1-noarch-25 e2fsprogs-1.38-i486-2 elvis-2.2_0-i486-2 etc-11.0-noarch-2 findutils-4.2.28-i486-1 glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-6 glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-6 grep-2.5-i486-3 gzip-1.3.5-i486-1 inetd-1.79s-i486-7 kbd-1.12-i486-2 less-394-i486-1 logrotate-3.7.4-i486-1 mailx-12.1-i486-1 module-init-tools-3.2.2-i486-2 openssh-4.4p1-i486-1 openssl-solibs-0.9.8d-i486-1 pkgtools-11.0.0-i486-4 procps-3.2.7-i486-1 sed-4.1.5-i486-1 shadow-4.0.3-i486-13 sysklogd-1.4.1-i486-9 sysvinit-2.84-i486-69 tar-1.15.1-i486-2 tcpip-0.17-i486-39 util-linux-2.12r-i486-5 cd /mnt/hd/dev mknod ubda b 98 0 mknod ubda1 b 98 1 mknod ubdb b 98 16 mknod ubdb1 b 98 17 mknod ubdc b 98 32 mknod ubdc1 b 98 33 Create /mnt/hd/etc/fstab /dev/ubda / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 Add line to /mnt/hd/etc/initab c0:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty0 linux Add line for tty0 to /mnt/hd/etc/securetty. ldconfig -l /mnt/hd/lib/* ldconfig -l /mnt/hd/lib/tls/* chmod a-x /mnt/hd/sbin/hwclock umount /mnt/hd and start uml using new filesystem. Login as root and set password to root.