alternate way to get a minimal slackware system

tested on 15.0/amd64

essentials

just A N sets are enough to begin with from the install medium

clean-up

removepkg grub
removepkg os-prober

make sure you’re got the casual public ssl trust anchors

    ls -lF /var/log/packages/ca-certificates*

then within a chroot, install those

d/perl
#l/glibc
l/libunistring

just to make ping wget+pki work and then

update-ca-certificates --fresh

now wget works and you’re ready to proceed without chroot

ap/diffutils
ap/slackpkg
l/ncurses

then

cd /etc/slackpkg/
mv mirrors mirrors.dist
vi mirrors

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