Slackware Help Forum -- Slackers helping slackers.

Note to mods: Not sure if this belongs here, move it to wherever the howtos section is, I didn't find one (kinda new to this forum, sorry)

Main Site is at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

First, if you haven't yet prepared/shrunk your partitions, download the appropriate Partition Manager package at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=240127 for your OS (exe for Windows, deb for Ubuntu/Debian, rpm for Fedora/Suse, sh for other Linux distros), install the package, reboot, and start GParted. More detailed instructions are available at http://www.howtoforge.com/unetbootin_wi ... _fedora_p4

Then, unless you plan on doing an NFS install, recursively download (wget -r or a similar approach) the contents of the following directory, or its equivalent on your slackware mirror:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/s ... /slackware
To a directory on your hard drive, like C:\slackware. Make sure the directory you download to isn't on the same partition that ou plan to use for slackware.

Then, download the appropriate UNetbootin Slackware installer for your OS at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=19882 and reboot, then select the "UNetbootin" option to start the Slackware installer.

First, login as "root"
If you're using NFS or some other network-based install, then, when the prompt shows up, type in "network" and press enter at the next prompt to set up networking.
Then, create your new partitions using "cfdisk" or "fdisk" unless you've already done so in GParted, in which case you can skip this step.
Then, type in "setup" to begin the actual installation process.
When you get to "source", select the "Install from hard drive partition" option, enter the hard drive it's on, then type in /slackware when asked for the directory.
Then, select your packages and proceed with the standard install approach.

Also, UNetbootin supports installing a variety of other distros as well, such as Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva, Arch Linux, and Debian; instructions for those are at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

So, does this mean you can install it to a usb drive??

I haven't tried installing slackware with unetbootin but i have slackware installed on one of my usb sticks and it works.

So can I ask how you did it? I've been trying to figure this one out for awhile now. Any input or help would be much appreciated Thanks!!

I've done this very same thing, however once I finish the install and reboot, I am presented with a black screen and a cursor indicator with no text, can't type, or anything. I think it's either because I didn't install lilo, or maybe it needs a boot stick, I'm not sure. It's obviously writing to the harddrive, I can watch that from the console using df command. I just don't know what to do to get the OS to boot up without my USB stick inserted. (I am very very new, BTW.)


My process - MainPC, (XP SP3) get unetbootin, copy 12.2 ISO to USB stick

put USB stick into bricked laptop, boot it up, set keyboard map, enter root, create the partitions ( I learned fdisk first, but cfdisk works well, too), I add the swap file, add the target file, I add the ability to see DOS partitions, which gives me the ability now to mount my USB drive

/# mkdir usbtest
mount /dev/sdb1 /usbtest

go back to the installation and input that information for the source file from HD partition, select all apps, and commence install.

It installs for a good 15 minutes or so, everything looks great, then reboot and nada.

I didn't install lilo
didn't make USB boot stick.

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