I have been meaning to update the linux virtual machine images with newer versions but have been too busy so far, however managed to get a breather at work thanks to the post Holidays slump 🙂 So here is an vm with the latest version of Slackware 64bit v13.1.
Slackware Linux VM Configuration
Distribution: 13.1
Linux Kernel: 2.6.33
Installation Type: Base+X+XFCE
Desktop Environment: XFCE
Networking: DHCP
Root Password: vmware
I have a small 🙂 NAS box with 6 x 1TB HDD in RAID 6 and 4 x 500GB HDD in RAID 5. Recently thanks to the arrival of my baby girl and a HD handy cam, I was running out of space fast on the array and so when when I saw a decent deal for 1TB drives in NewEgg I picked up couple to add to the RAID 6 volume.
Growing a raid array in linux using mdadm is easy. I made sure I used fdisk to create single large partition on the drive and mark the partition type fd (Linux raid autodetect) prior to adding it to the array.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdm1 1 121601 976760001 fd Linux raid autodetect
Adding the drives to the raid is straightforward
mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sdl1
mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sdm1
Gentoo v2007.0 Virtual Machine
If you are here, you probably know a bit about Gentoo Linux already, if not Gentoo.org is a good place to start and Gentoo arguably has the best product documentation wiki ever, so it makes sense to look it up, if you run into something.
Now about the VM itself.
Gentoo Linux Configuration
Distribution: 2007.0
Linux Kernel: 2.6-23-gentoo-r3
Installation Type: Minimal (no Desktop Environment)
Networking: DHCP
User Name/password – none
Root Password: “gentoo”