[SOLVED] installng slackware on Framework 13 laptop
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After many years I have purchased a Framework 13 laptop without any operating system pre-installed on it. I have a Ventoy formatted usb drive along with a USB dvd drive. Using either install method, I get to the cfdisk step. My Western Digital ssd is not seen, though the boot menu indicates it is present. I have tried turning off the secure boot which did not help. Can someone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
My suggestion is to use slackware64-current-mini-install.iso to see if it works with a newer kernel. Even if you want to install slackware 15.0, you could use the newer kernel if the GPU is being supported by free drivers.
I've always found the suggestions posed at this forum extremely helpful. I think I'll pass on the Slackware-current mini install, only because for years I've used stable releases. I initially tried the Framework site, but for some reason missed the item that Michaelk highlighted. Curiously enough, before reading that post, I independently determined my problems revolved around tpm. (When you only have used 'ancient' computers, tpm has not been an issue. I'm going to mark this issue as solved. Thank you, all.
My last two Slackware installations were of -current, one being pre-15 -current and one being post-15 -current. I got a new Radeon desktop computer, and couldn't see the spinning drives. (Oddly enough, I could see the NVMe drive.) Once I had -current running I checked the source tree for the V14.2 kernel and the pre-15 kernel, and found the string "Radeon" didn't appear in the former but did in the latter.
I'm running post-15 -current on this laptop because the keyboard was Being Awkward. The keystrokes were taking minutes to echo on the laptop's screen. A USB keyboard worked, but I got advice to try -current to see if that did anything good. It did. That was this laptop I'm working on now.
Free advice, worth every penny you paid for it and a sample size of only two, but it's something to bear in mind.
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