Hi: In http://www.android-x86.org/documents...howto#Advanced you can see that, to create a bootable USB stick from an ISO image, the Linux Live USB creator is used. However that tool only runs on Windows. Is there not linux software to do the same thing?

Just use dd.

If the iso hasn't been prepped for USB usage (slackware 14.1 and future versions are prepped for usb, so you won't need to do this -- although, it doesn't hurt to do it again if it's already been done), you'd need to run isohybrid on the iso prior to using dd.

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Thanks a lot. Could you tell me how to check integrity of the files downloaded at that site?

EDIT: I ran isohybrid on the file and it did not touch anything (I did a backup and then compared with cmp)! Perhaps it was already hybridized?

Follow the link View for any of the .iso or.img. It is displayed on the screen that appears.

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make md5 sums first , pass de isohybrid , and compare later.

I don't see it anywhere!

Most sites provide you a separate file that ends in .md5. This is an md5 hash to verify whether or not the download is corrupted. If the place you downloaded the iso doesn't supply that (or some other hash) anywhere, then there really is no way to verify the integrity of the file. You can see what I mean with the Slackware-14.1 dvd folder on a Slackware mirror below. There is a slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso file as well as a slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso.md5 file in that folder.

http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...re64-14.1-iso/

What are you trying to write to your USB and where did you get the file?

The site is
http://www.android-x86.org/download
and the file I wrote to the pendrive is android-x86-4.4-r2.iso, after having run isohybrid on it. By the way, isohybrid left it intact.

It doesn't look like they provide any way to verify the integrity of the ISOs.

And isohybrid won't output anything if nothing went wrong. It is a quick process.

Yes. Some View links lead you to a summary (at least those that I tried), but not his one. Anyway just go there...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/and...Release%204.4/
... And click on the letter "i" in a black disk on the line of the file you downloaded.

For android-x86-4.4-r2.iso I see:
But you may prefer check yourself.

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Tkanks Didier. I take the opportunity to ask another question. After installation of android, I modified lilo.conf to boot the new OS. I just wrote
because I saw the only filename that looked like a kernel image was that. But after some chunks of messages output, it said "5 seconds to boot". As I saw an initrd.img, I then added it to lilo.conf:
This time the booting process went on longer, but finally it said: Detecting Android and there it seems to have hanged. Any way to use lilo to boot the Android OS? Of course, lilo when run did not output any errors.

I think that you will have to use grub (I mean grub 2 shipped in Slackware, no grub legacy).

Yes, but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to dual boot slackware and android.

Check this article: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/how-t...nd-ubuntu.html

It should be doable to adapt the procedure to Slackware.