Please note that starting with Slackware You can find the USB bootable image file called usbboot. Also, Slackware contains modified versions of my Wiki pages in that same directory. The remainder of this Wiki article is basically preserved here as a technical reference, but you are no longer required to follow all the instructions below. Of course, when you visit other places, such a server is not always available So, I went on, and turned to USB sticks, also known as pen drives or thumb drives.
So, how does one create this small image file, and how is it used? First, we calculate the sizes of the files we are going to copy into the USB image the initrd. Create a DOS formatted image file: mkfs. This concludes the steps needed to create our image file! Be careful about the device name for your USB stick!
The above dd command will wipe out any existing data on the device, so you had better be sure that it is not the SATA hard disk you're targeting! After writing the usbboot.
To contain all the packages that make a full Slackware install you'll need a USB stick that is larger than 1GB … The reason for needing two partitions is that our bootloader syslinux requires the filesystem on which it is installed to be FAT Take care about which device actually is your USB stick!!! Article Discussion Show pagesource Old revisions.
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Learn how your comment data is processed. Therefore this guide will show you how to: boot your computer to Slackware Live directly from a downloaded ISO. Step 2: transferring the content of the ISO to your USB stick This is the easy part, as it has been documented extensively in earlier blog articles.
Any terminal will do. In the terminal, switch user to become root. Examples: '-c M', '-c 1. No formatting, do not touch user content. Good luck! Like this: Like Loading Cheers, Didier. Thank you very much for your time and your effort. If yes, I have fun for the weekend: install Slackware current with Plasma5 in this machine. Best regards. Eric I was wondering how long does it take to complete the setup2hd? Hey Alien, thanks for the article. The forum seems to suggest installing BCD version 2.
Thanks again for your help. Could you possibly suggest an alternative program? Assuming such a program exists. Thank you. Nick, no. Your best bet is to find support for your EasyBCD problem. So, the trade-off is speed versus persistence. Some comments and suggestions: 1 This blog entry regarding Grub2 to use live slack from disk is very important, please include this info in docs. I left my testing process at this point last night.
Any hint or advice? If we create a persistence image it is read only if we delete dirty flag I am aware that scrits establish reading mode on hard drives to avoid damage in live mode. Just to let you know about my progress using slackware: 1 I used liveslak with encrypted persist, and updated several times my USB with your new releases..
Thanks Eric for all this huge effort and excelent and outstanding work. Best Regards, francisco. I appreciate any hint or links to continue investigating. Regards, Francisco. Close the gate on your way out. I am running Debian How can I get around this? Hi Vincent, I have never used Debian and will probably never try it either. Thanks for taking the time to respond. The only references I saw of it in the dmesg output is as follows: [ Opts: null Any other pointers?
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This directory includes the necessary files and instructions for booting the Slackware installer from a USB flash drive or from a network card that supports PXE. The files there are the best source of information available for such boot methods. Starting with the This allows them to be written to a USB stick, which can then be booted and used as the install source.
Booting the installer is simply a process of inserting the Slackware install disk into your CD or DVD drive and rebooting. You may have to enter your computer's BIOS and alter the boot order to place the optical drive at a higher boot priority than your hard drives. Some computers allow you to change the boot order on the fly by pressing a specific function key during system boot-up.
Since every computer is different, we can't offer instructions on how to do this, but the method is simple on nearly all machines. Once your computer boots from the CD you'll be taken to a screen that allows you to enter any special kernel parameters. This is here primarily to allow you to use the installer as a sort of rescue disk. Some systems may need special kernel parameters in order to boot, but these are very rare exceptions to the norm.
Most users can simply press enter to let the kernel boot. You should see a lot of text go flying across your screen. Don't be alarmed, this is all perfectly normal. The text you see is generated by the kernel during boot-up as it discovers your hardware and prepares to load the operating system in this case, the installer.
You can later read these messages with the dmesg 1 command if you're interested. Often these messages are very important for troubleshooting any hardware problems you may have.
Once the kernel has completed its hardware discovery, the messages should stop and you'll be given an option to load support for non-us keyboards. Simply select the mapping that matches your keyboard type and continue on. Unlike other Linux distributions which boot you directly into a dedicated installer program, Slackware's installer drops you into a limited Linux distribution loaded into your system's RAM.
This limited distribution is then used to run all the installation programs manually, or can be used in emergencies to fix a broken system that fails to boot. Now that you're logged in as root there is no password within the installer it's time to start setting up your disks. At this point, you may setup software RAID or LVM support if you wish or even an encrypted root partition, but those topics are outside of the scope of this book.
TXT files on your CD if you desire to setup your system with these advanced tools. Most users won't have any need to do so and should proceed directly to partitioning.
The Slackware installation media comes with tools to partition a hard drive. Usually partitioning a hard disk process is composed of these steps:. Using fdisk to partition a hard drive is done by following the following steps. The partition table can be created differently, this is only an example:. This is a very simple partition table, naturally fdisk supports the creation of mixed logical and physical partitions.
If you've never installed Slackware before, you can get a very basic over-view of the Slackware installer by reading the Help menu. Most of the information here is on navigating through the installer which should be fairly intuitive, but if you've never used a curses-based program before you may find this useful. Before we go any further, Slackware gives you the opportunity to select a different mapping for your keyboard.
If you're using a standard US keyboard you can safely skip this step, but if you're using an international keyboard you will want to select the correct mapping now. This ensures that the keys you press on your keyboard will do exactly what you expect them to do.
If you created a swap partition, this step will allow you to enable it before running any memory-intensive activities like installing packages. It's a hard drive partition or a file, though Slackware's installer does not support swap files where regions of active system memory get copied when your computer is out of useable RAM. Our next step is selecting our root partition and any other partitions we'd like Slackware to utilize.
You'll be given a choice of filesystems to use and whether or not to format the partition. If you're installing to a new partition you must format it.
If you have a partition with data on it you'd like to save, don't. This lets them install newer versions of Slackware without having to backup and restore this data. Here you'll tell the installer where to find the Slackware packages. If you have your packages installed to a partition that you setup in the previous step, you can install from that partition or a pre-mounted directory.
Slackware includes a usbboot. In the same directory one can also find usbimg2disk. Microsoft Windows or Linux. This document describes yet another way of creating an image capable of booting from USB, containing all of the packages neeeded for an installation, using Isohybrid.
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