Portable Slackware

Cuetzpallin · 05-15-2009, 01:06 PM

Well finally I downloaded a correct file, unzip it and it works

, but I don't have internet connection

linus72, do you know how or where can I configure the bridge o take a different IP for the Portable-Slackware?

Woodsman, I've the same situation as you, and it would be great if this portable-slackware run complete. take a look in it.

Woodsman · 05-15-2009, 01:55 PM

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but I don't have internet connection

Yes, without networking, the portable OS idea is rather lame for me. One of the reasons to run a portable OS is to run familiar KDE apps rather than Window apps --- but I need access to the local network drive mappings. I'm not interested in running a simple NAT pass-through to access the web as I already have Portable Firefox (for Windows) on my USB drive.

I made some progress with converting my existing VirtualBox Slackware 12.2 image to Qemu and posted my observations in the other thread.

niels.horn · 05-16-2009, 08:45 PM

@Woodsman: You can configure Qemu to have the VM run as an independent box on your network, accessing the internet & local shares as if it were any other machine on your LAN.
This is done with tun/tap and a qemu-ifup & qemu-ifdown script. It is a bit of a hassle to set up, compared to VirtualBox and VMware, but it is doable if you're not afraid of the CLI

I'm not at my desktop now where I have this setup working and I am hopelessly without time these days - caught up in projects at work - so I hope someone else here can help you out.
I myself am interested in a portable Slackware, as I also have to run Windows at work.

I just need to find a way to create an eighth day for every week...

linus72 · 05-16-2009, 09:01 PM

I really don't know what to say...I configured slackware for DHCP when I did the install and it works wherever I have used it...

Did you try configuring the network from the KDE menu?

Also, why don't you just build it as in the directions-then maybe it will be configured right.
long as you have a hour or two to plsy with...

The KDE version is flawed-tomorrow the XFCE4 version will be available too.

Woodsman · 05-16-2009, 11:36 PM

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This is done with tun/tap and a qemu-ifup & qemu-ifdown script. It is a bit of a hassle to set up

Yes, I tried fiddling with that yesterday to no avail.

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I really don't know what to say...I configured slackware for DHCP when I did the install and it works wherever I have used it...

I don't see how that would succeed in my case. The host machine is not mine but a corporate box. I doubt my virtual Slackware would be granted a DHCP lease from the corporate servers unless I discovered how to mimic another corporate box. That action likely would be considered black hat hacking by the IT folks.

linus72 · 05-17-2009, 07:02 AM

Mmmm, good morning peoples; I haven't a clue how to solve the net problem.
I'm still a newbie, so you guys know alot more than I do about it.

But, let's talk about it so we can get it working....

Questions and stuff-
If you, Woodsman, were to run a live distro from cd/usb on the corporate box-would it be able to access the net? If so, how?

Did you try setting up the net from within portable-slack?

Can you try re-configuring the slack install on the corporate box?
How?
along with the portable slack, and the slk_install.bat, add the slack "Slackware-12.2-mini-install.iso from ( http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackboot/mini/ ) to your USB, then start the install from the host corporate box off your USB; start qemu as thus to reconfigure install;renaming iso above to simply "mini.iso"-

Code:

REM Install Slack in Qemu vhd on windows.

@ECHO OFF



START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -no-kqemu -m 92 -soundhw all -localtime -cdrom mini.iso -hda qemu/hda -append "qemu frugal quiet noscsi nousb nofirewire atapicd noideraid noacpi acpi=off noapm noagp ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe nomce" 



CLS

EXIT

Note- boot the iso, choose keymap and login as root.
type in "setup"
At setup screen; choose "add target partition", choose "do not format".
cancel when it asks what pkg's to install.
back at setup menu-choose "configure" and try and re-configure the network- the only choices are dhcp, loopback, and static ip.

If that doesn't help I don't really know what to tell you...you guys are light-years ahead of me in experience with Linux, computers, and internet.
Though there must be a Way.

Woodsman · 05-17-2009, 12:24 PM

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If you, Woodsman, were to run a live distro from cd/usb on the corporate box-would it be able to access the net? If so, how?

I have not tried that but I suspect nothing would happen. The corporate network uses scripts to assign the network mappings. The Live CD would not be able to run that script.

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Can you try re-configuring the slack install on the corporate box?

I haven't yet been back on site to try anything.

I'm only there a few days each week. When I return from my next trip I hope to provide an update.

Question at large: Is running the kqemu accelerator in user space possible in Windows? Running Qemu without the driver is slow even with high-end hardware. Installing the kqemu driver requires admin rights. Running in user space would not. Just curious.

uppman · 05-19-2009, 08:49 AM

I have succesfully installed Slackware to a USB-stick and booted it with VirtualBox! Pretty cool..

http://linuxconfig.dyndns.org:1184/l...iki/VirtualBox