Hi,
For users that want to try Slackware-Live but do not use Slackware. Then you should look at;
How to create a Slackware Live USB stick if you are not using Slackware
Eric (Alien Bob) has created a excellent blog article entry to help people create a Slackware Live USB
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From How to create a Slackware Live USB stick if you are not using Slackware
This article describes how you transfer the content of a “Slackware Live Edition” ISO file onto a USB stick (aka pendrive) thereby making that USB drive bootable, and persistent. The guide is meant for people who are not already running Slackware but still want to try Slackware on a Live USB medium. Note that the parent article “Slackware Live Edition” describes in detail how Slackware users can create such a Live USB drive.
Basically, this divides the article’s audience into:
- Windows users (Windows 7 and higher) with its Boot Configuration Data (BCD) boot record, and
- Linux/BSD users who use GRUB as their boot manager.
I don’t think that LILO is used anywhere else than in Slackware. LILO does not support ISO images as boot selection, but it is still possible to make LILO boot Slackware Live. If you are not using Slackware but your OS is actually using LILO, let me know in the comments section and I will update this article with guidelines.
Why another guide if there’s a lot of documentation already?
It’s easy to use ‘dd’ or an equivalent Windows tool to copy the ISO file onto a USB stick, but then you end up with a read-only stick. The ISO9660 filesystem which is used for generating the ISO file, is read-only by nature and the ‘dd’ command copies everything, re-creating a read-only filesystem on the target.
People who want a Live USB stick with persistence, need to run the accompanying “iso2usb.sh” script which does some smart thngs to the USB stick to make it writable for the Live OS. However, using that script outside of Slackware seems to be an issue for some people.
Therefore this guide will show you how to:
- boot your computer to Slackware Live directly from a downloaded ISO.
- Subsequently write the ISO’s contents to your USB stick from within Slackware Live Edition. How? Because the “iso2usb.sh” script is contained inside that ISO and will be available to you in the Live OS.
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Great thorough article that will help everyone wanting to create a Slackware Live USB installation. As usual Eric has gone way out of his way to help fellow users.
Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!
How to create a Slackware Live USB stick if you are not using Slackware
