Slax Installation


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Slax Installation 
USB Installation 
HD frugal install without touching MBR 
Which version 
How to run Slax with WindowsXP 
BSDIFF for Slax 6.0.3 
BSDIFF for Slax 6.0.3 

Slax Installation 

USB Installation 

http://www.slax.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=79762#79762

  1. Fat 16 formatted flash drive,
  2. untarred the tar onto the flash drive and a
  3. ./boot/bootinst.sh

and everything was fine.

documented on: May 04, 2007, flux

HD frugal install without touching MBR 

If you don't want to touch MBR of your HD,

  1. Fat 16 formatted HD partition, make it active
  2. untarred the tar onto the partition
  3. cd /mnt/hda3, ie the partition that we are working on
  4. ./boot/syslinux/syslinux -d boot/syslinux /dev/$(basename $(pwd))

documented on: 2007.06.27, xpt