Installing Slack using a thumb drive formatted with RUFUS

ThatGriffin · 02-19-2022, 06:27 PM

I was able to install a Slackware ISO onto a thumb drive using rufus. It looked like all went smoothly and RUFUS gave that pop up box saying finished. I set it to boot and it ran thru the startup files. It eventually brought me to a logon screen asking me for a password. ????? Didnt know I needed one to run a portable thumb drive. Where do I go from here?

colorpurple21859 · 02-19-2022, 08:51 PM

Unless it changed try live

ThatGriffin · 02-19-2022, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Unless it changed try live

I dont know what "Live" is and I no longer have an optical drive.

!!! · 02-19-2022, 11:30 PM

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...in-4175625233/

ThatGriffin · 02-20-2022, 11:34 PM

Hey, thanks for the link "!!!". It looks like it might solve my problem.

Tonus · 02-22-2022, 06:35 PM

Was it a live iso ?
Or did you install it ?

If you installed Slackware, first login is with root and previously added password (during setup, if you did).

onebuck · 02-24-2022, 07:59 AM

Hi,

If you have 'Slack-Live' then the password is 'live' for normal usage. If you boot or use a vt/terminal and wish root then the password is 'root'.

If you want more information then look at Eric's blog; https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/

Another useful source is; https://docs.slackware.com/start
EDIT: Additional information;

Quote:

Live Edition of Slackware 15.0 (64-bit stable): available here !

You will find ISO images for Slackware Live Edition, created by the latest version of liveslak, in the "latest" folder below. Check the README for more detail.
The "bonus" folder contains live modules that add multilib, contain Nvidia binary drivers, expand your Live OS with a set of audio creation software, et cetera.

Also worth while:
After every update of Slackware-current's ChangeLog.txt a Slackware Live ISO will automatically be generated based on the latest & greatest. You can download and run this Live ISO image if you want to test or debug the bleeding edge of Slackware. Get it from slackware.nl!
And a Live Edition of Slackware 15.0 (64-bit stable) is always available too.

Things to remember when you boot any liveslak based ISO:
========================================================

Slackware Live does not log you on automatically!
This is a demonstration environment, with the purpose of getting you acquainted
with Slackware, remember? Therefore you will first see all these intimidating
kernel messages scrolling across the screen while booting the OS.
Then you need to login manually.

The Slackware Live Edition comes with two user accounts: user "root"
(with password "root") and user "live" (with password "live").
My advice is to login as user live and use "su" or "sudo" to get root access.

Note: the "sudo" command will ask for the "live" user's password!

Consult the documentation at:
http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:...ters_explained
for assistance with the various boot parameters you can use to tailor the
Live OS to your needs. The syslinux boot has help screens behind the
F2, F3, F4 and F5 function keys and the grub boot screen has a "help on
boot parameters" menu entry.

EDIT2: Please notice the bold information from https://docs.slackware.com/slackware...ters_explained

Quote:

Layout of the USB stick

The “iso2usb.sh” script wipes and re-partitions the USB stick unless the “-r” or refresh parameter is used. See section “Transfering ISO content to USB stick” for an explanation of all commandline switches.
The script will create 3 partitions:

First partition: a small (1 MB in size) FAT partition which is not used for Slackware Live Edition. It can be used by an alternative bootloader if needed. You can also store your LUKS keyfile on it to unlock a LUKS-encrypted Slackware Linux computer (see the README_CRYPT.TXT file on your Slackware DVD for more information on LUKS keyfiles).
Second partition: a 100 MB VFAT partition containing the kernel, initrd and all the other stuff required by syslinux and grub2 to boot Slackware Live Edition.
Third partition: a Linux partition taking up all of the remaining space. It contains the actual liveslak modules, the persistent live storage and optionally your encrypted homedirectory. You can use the remainder of this Linux ext4 filesystem's free space to store anything you like.

Note that this script is the only supported method of transfering the liveslak ISO content to a USB stick and make that USB stick into a persistent live OS. Several 3rd party tools (like multibootusb, rufus, unetbootin) that claim to be able to mix several Live OS'es on a single USB stick and make them all work in a multi-boot setup, are not currently supporting liveslak.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy Slackware!