Slackware Linux Setup program main menu. You can enter Slackware setup program after finished setting up hard disk partition. As you can see from the screenshot above, there are several tools available in the setup program. Use arrow keys to move up or down and press space bar or enter to select a tool's menu. You can also use shortcut key to move to a menu. For example, you can press E key to go to the exit Slackware Linux Setup menu. All the shortcut characters are in red color.

• Help - Read the Slackware Setup HELP file.
• Keymap - Remap your keyboard if you are not using a US one.
• Addswap - Setup your swap partition(s).
• Target - Setup your target partitions.
• Source - Select source media.
• Select - Select categories of software to install.
• Install - Install selected software.
• Configure - Reconfigure your Linux system.
• Exit - Exit Slackware Linux Setup.

The standard key 'Tab' and the '+' and '-' keys can also be used to move move up and down and to the next menu available. You can read the Slackware Setup HELP file to understand more about each menu. If not, you can continue to setup Slackware by choosing Addswap - Setup your swap partition(s).

Slackware Setup check swap partition for bad blocks. Although all modern hard disk drive check for bad blocks, you can check here manually. It only takes a few seconds.

Choose no if you want to skip the check. It's the default choice anyway.

Select which partition to be the Linux installation partition. As we did in previous step, use arrow keys up and down to select partition and press 'Enter' to choose. This partition will be the / partition. Other mount points such as /etc, /bin, /sbin, will be kept in this partition.

If you choose to format the partition in the previous step, now you can select the filesystem type for the partition. Linux support several filesystem types other than the native filesystem, ext2 filesystem. Here are all filesystems available with Slackware Linux:

• ext2 - Traditional Linux filesystem. It's stable and fast.
• ext3 - Journaling version of the ext2 file system.
• jfs - IBM's journaled filesystem currently used in IBM enterprise servers.
• reiserfs - Journaling filesystem that stores all files and filenames in a balanced tree structure.
• xfs - SGI's journaling filesystem that originated on IRIX.

It doesn't matter what filesystem you choose, Slackware will work. This options depend on your work environment and what do you want your Slackware to be. If you want Slackware to be database server that uses Oracle server for example, then choose ext3 or reiserfs. Just choose the standard Linux filesystem, the ext2 filesystem, if you are not sure or if you need the journaling file system, choose ext3 which has some benefits mention above and for automatically checking bad blocks capability.

Slackware Setup format second partition options. We have done this in step 6. Here, we should do the same.

You can check partition for bad block. After that, choose to quick format the partition.

In the previous step, Slackware Setup program ask us to configure partition for root (/), now we have to assign the mount point ourselves. Select which mount point are you planning to set for the second partition.

May you already got that planned. If you don't, the options here would be /home users and ftp files, /var for logs and mail spool and /usr/local for additional software such as servers that you'll be added later.

Just as you did in previous step, check for bad blocks and then quick format the partition.

Assign mount point for the third partition. This step is the same as step 11.