Slax Installation

USB Installation

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

Fat 16 formatted flash drive,
untarred the tar onto the flash drive and a
./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,

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

documented on: 2007.06.27, xpt

Which version

ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/rc3/README.usb-iso

If you need both TAR version (for your USB drive) and ISO version (for CD), you don't have to download both.

Here is how to convert it from one to another:

If you downloaded ISO file and you wish to convert it to TAR version

mount the ISO somewhere
```
eg. mount -o loop slax.iso /mnt/tmp
```
make the TAR easily (or copy the content directly to USB)
```
eg. cd /mnt/tmp; tar -c boot slax >slax.tar
```

If you downloaded TAR file and you'd like to generate ISO

unpack the TAR archive
```
eg. tar -xf slax.tar; rm slax.tar
```

run make_iso.sh to generate the ISO file

eg. cd ./slax/ ; make_iso.sh /mnt/sda1_disk/slax.iso

How to run Slax with WindowsXP

http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/86

Create a folder named slax in your driver C:
Copy the CD contents to the folder,

Create a file: menu.lst on C driver (C:/menu.lst); copy and paste the following

timeout 0
default 0
title Linux For Buddhist Studies
kernel /slax/boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 changes=/slax/  slax from=/dev/hda1/slax/
initrd /slax/boot/initrd.gz
boot

"hda" is for my hard disk, sometimes it may be "sda".

download grldr (http://www.thanhsiang.org/faqing/files/grldr) to C:/
add
```
c:\grldr="GRUB"
```
to c:\boot.ini

BSDIFF for Slax 6.0.3

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=5006

> Is there a BSDIFF available to upgrade from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 available?

Here a link.

ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/bsdiff/slax-6.0.2-to-6.0.3.tar.bsdiff

documented on: 2008-03-20, jmdlcar

BSDIFF for Slax 6.0.3

$ bsdiff
bsdiff: usage: bsdiff oldfile newfile patchfile

$ bsdiff slax-6.0.2.iso slax-6.0.3.iso slax-6.0.2-to-6.0.3.iso.bsdiff
Killed

Why it get killed — my computer almost choked:

$ uptime
 23:43:24 up 1 day,  6:08,  8 users,  load average: 15.95, 5.96, 2.16

After it get killed:

$ uptime
 23:43:44 up 1 day,  6:09,  8 users,  load average: 15.65, 6.54, 2.44

The bsdiff file is more than a third of the iso file. So for me it is much better to download the iso instead.

documented on: 2008-03-20