Hello,
As I told on #vbox at Freenode, I post solution for installing vbox on
Slackware Linux:
This document describes how to modify install.sh to make it suitable for
slackware.
1. There is no /etc/init.d. There is /etc/rc.d with rc.* scripts,
like rc.udev, rc.alsa, etc. vboxdrv.sh from vbox package needs to
be copied to /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv. Remember to make 755 permissions for it
by:
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv
2. After copying to /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv, this script needs some changes
to adopt for slackware. This is patch that can be applied:
--- CUT HERE ---
--- vboxdrv.sh.old 2007-01-14 14:25:08.000000000 +0000
+++ vboxdrv.sh 2007-01-17 21:15:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
system=debian
elif [ -f /etc/gentoo-release ]; then
system=gentoo
+elif [ -f /etc/slackware-version ]; then
+ system=slackware
else
echo "$0: Unknown system" 1>&2
fi
@@ -90,6 +92,20 @@
}
fi
+if [ $system = slackware ]; then
+ fail_msg() {
+ echo "...fail!"
+ }
+
+ succ_msg() {
+ echo "...done."
+ }
+
+ begin() {
+ echo -n $1
+ }
+fi
+
if [ $system = gentoo ]; then
. /sbin/functions.sh
fail_msg() {
@@ -151,7 +167,7 @@
sleep 1
}
if [ ! -c $dev ]; then
- maj=`sed -n 's;\([0-9]\+\) vboxdrv;\1;p' /proc/devices`
+ maj=`sed -n 's;\([0-9]\+\) vboxdrv;\1;p' /proc/misc`
test -z $maj && {
rmmod $modname
fail "Cannot locate device major"
--- CUT HERE ---
It would be nice to make script check both of /proc/devices and /proc/misc,
instead of only one of them.
3. runlevel.sh called from install.sh will not work on slackware.
We just need to add lines:
# Start vboxdrv
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start
fi
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
so it will be called at system boot.
4. To finish intallation we cannot start vboxdrv with: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv
start. In our case we have to use: /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start
--
Paweł Salawa (Googie)
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