I know there are several Slackware-based distributions that have been created for the purpose of acting as a live USB, but has any created an actual live USB from a full-blown Slackware itself? Any advice on how to do it?

Is there a way to install Slackware on a live USB just like we do on a hard drive with all the customizations, i.e. LVM, custom packages, applications, etc.?

Nothing would please me more than to see a "solved" answer to this question :-)

Well - OK - if someone transfers $$$millions into my bank account I'd be more pleased !

Apparently porteus answered that.

Didier Spaier has previously written about how to install Slackware to an external USB disk. The only thing in addition you might want to do is to cut down the number of packages to get it to fit, if you are using a small disk like a pen drive. Though you can get a basic Xfce desktop setup within a couple of Gb.

I believe that more interesting will be an official "out-of-box" USB installation kit. We remember, today slackware-current source tree generate (via AlienBOB's mirror-slackware-current.sh) a "little" ISO, about 5571MB.

Why I should use an Double-Layer DVD when already I have an 8GB USB stick?

I known, there is some (un)official methods, but, I believe to be better a solution to create an USB installer even using Windows as host. Something like what GParted do. Extract the source tree in the target device and run one script to make it bootable.

@Darth Vader: USB install images are already provided:

http://ftp.uninett.no/linux/slackwar...xe-installers/


You will also find usbimg2disk.sh in that directory. It allows you to make a disk that better uses the available space. So you can include the packages on the same disk if you don't want to do a network install.

I believe he meant something more like the ARM miniroot:
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/...tfs/README.txt

Thank you everyone. Certainly, there are many attempts and proposals offered, but I haven't seen a one that literally takes the hard drive installation and slaps it on to the live USB. I would surely give Didier's instruction a try this weekend.

Nevertheless, since I had envisioned the live USB to be functional on the majority of systems, namely taking it from laptop to laptop, or even desktop to desktop, the kernel configurations must be somewhat more inclusive to handle various hardwares and modules, which unfortunately, would make it bloated.

I'm not aiming to load an infinite number of packages and applications; as a matter of fact, when it comes to to user/server programs, I tend to be minimalistic.

Moreover, I think one should also consider how the normal excessive "writes" to the USB done by the programs and kernel would effect the longevity of the device. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind using it only for 2 or 3 years and replacing it with a better performing USB afterwards.

What hinders you to just make a normal Slackware installation to that device?
Of course you have to adapt /etc/fstab and your lilo configuration to use labels or UUIDs, but that is a no brainer.

I dont't know if Exton-Slack has everything you need?

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You might like to check these out:

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/inst...b-thumb-drive/

http://www.slackwiki.com/Install_Sla...SB_Flash_Drive

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-slack-740557/

That looks very nice. I'm going to try a download this weekend. Thank you.

I'm currently running Slackware 32 bit entirely from a 1G USB memory stick (yes, only 1 G !). I did a minimal installation and added packages one by one (a painful process). I have formatted the usb stick as ext2 to minimize writes, I have mounted some directories and files in ram:
I have moved slackpkg cache files to /dev/shm amd modified Firefox to run entirely in memory.
This is the list of my packages:
http://pastebin.com/KatzBJ2m

The reason I'm trying to have a Slackware USB Live is because this is a laptop that I do not have a permission to install another OS on its hard drive. Moreover, I would like to have a flexibility to just take this USB Live, and if the system provide a bootable option from the USB, and load it on most machines. I understand that reconfiguration for a new system might somehow defeat this purpose, but I could install as many functionalities into the kernel or load them as modules with this USB Live.

Alien's Windows and Linux installation to the USB scripts are sure useful here. Thank you.

I'm going to try both of them this weekend see if I can get it to work.