Slackware install from a flashdrive?
 

I have a Dell Inspiron 5000. A laptop that's kinda old and the drive is finiky. It only works sometimes. I just bought a 1 gig, 2 gig, and 4 gig flash drives ( went crazy on black friday). Can I put slackware on one of those and install from them? I don't want to use the flashdrive for a live install. I want to transfer the files to the hd, set up the boot loader ect... so the computer will run by itself. Is this possible?

in the Slackware DVD ISo there is a folder miniiso-pxe-usb-installers
in that go to usb folder.
See the readme there, its pretty self explantory.
Thus you will have a bootable Slack USB drive. Put the remainin data from ISO into the 4 gig drive. And install ( I am not sure wether you can have both the data and the bootable drive on the same flash drive. try it out)

I have the script that creates just such a USB stick image but have not yet published it. I will though, soon.

Eric

Do you have this script ready yet? I want to make a bootable USB drive from a ISO image.

Actually I posted everything to my website a few days after my above post... and then I forgot to tell.
You can get all of it here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/usbinstall/

Note: read the accompanying README carefully. You should not have a need to modify the script, everything (file locations for instance) can be controlled using commandline variables.

Eric

It looks like this is based on making a Slackware install CD, correct? Is it possible to use this for other distro's too? I have another distro that I have to use for work, that I want to make a USB installer for.

You can try.

Eric