I have an older laptop that has no ability to boot from USB, and the DVD drive is flaky, so I can't install from there.

What works with most distributions is to write the iso to a flashdrive using Rufus, boot from floppy with plop boot manager, and then tell it to boot from USB. The slackel will boot this way, but when I get into the install, it can't find the source on the flashdrive to load from, and its as though the flashdrive isn't mapped, because it won't accept /dev/sdb0 either, and I can't switch to an alternate console to map it.

The screen says to look at the FAQ or boot file, but I didn't find any answers there, either.

If I knew a way to map the flashdrive, that would be great. blkid doesn't show any entry for it.

or I could use another OS and copy files or a directory to somewhere on the harddrive if I knew what to copy?

Thanks for any helpful suggestions...

Nevermind....

The solution was to boot another OS, map the flashdrive, make a directory /slackeliso, copy the data from the flashdrive to /slackeliso, boot the slackel OS via the plop floppy and USB, cancel the install, make a /slackeldrv directory, mount the other drive to /slackeldrv, then run setup, and tell it to install from /slackeldrv/slackeliso

It was pretty convoluted but got me there