From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:51:21 -0700, tom wrote:   
   > How does one install slackware onto a zfs boot environment?   
      
   Sorry, I have no experience from zfs, but I have done some custimizations   
   of the Slackware installation scripts.   
      
   > Is using slackware with zfs something I'm going to have to fight   
   > the system over or will it work without hassle?   
      
   Most of all you will need a compiled kernel which supports zfs. Life will   
   probably be easier if you choose a kernel version and configuration which   
   closely looks like the kernel that came with Slackware.   
      
   > also, how does one install slackware from a chroot and minirootfs?   
      
   If I remember right, the Slackware install scripts does not even require   
   you to chroot, they  simply unpack tar files (the Slackware packages) in   
   the directory you point them to.   
      
   > The typical slackware install requires the use of a setup tool, which   
   > is not what i want and it requires setting up partitions, something I   
   > don't need or want since I use zfs datasets.   
      
   The "setup tool" is simply a script running a number of other scripts.   
   There is nothing that requires you to run those scripts during   
   installation, you might just as well do all the steps by hand. Basically   
   what those scripts do is:   
      
   1) Selects a keyboard layout for the installation   
   2) Selects an mountes some source for the Slackware packages   
   3) Selects destination partition(s) to be mounted and create an fstab   
      for the installed system   
   4) Unpacks all packages   
   5) Runs the scripts which the packages has placed in /var/log/setup   
      to let you configure stuff like running services and bootloaders.   
      
   In my custom installations I don't do those steps manually, instead I   
   have modified the scripts which lives in /usr/lib/setup in the initrd.img   
   on the installation media. I have also written some custom packages which   
   replaces some of the scripts other packages place in /var/log/setup. The   
   main purpose of my customization has been to make a quick "no questions   
   asked", "fire and forget" installation.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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