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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2011-04-25 13:37:00 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:45:18 +0200 |
| commit | 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e (patch) | |
| tree | 502f745607e77a2c4386ad38d818ddcafe81489c /usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT | |
| parent | b76270bf9e6dd375e495fec92140a79a79415d27 (diff) | |
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Slackware 13.37slackware-13.37
Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011
Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released!
Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team,
the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing
a great forum for collaboration and testing.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions,
and feedback. :-)
Have fun!
Diffstat (limited to 'usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT')
| -rw-r--r-- | usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT | 27 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT b/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT index a1f436ddc..a8079feee 100644 --- a/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT +++ b/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT @@ -127,8 +127,28 @@ raw device, it did not create partitions at all. Fdisk reads the information in the first sector and incorrectly interprets that as a messed-up device.
-Restoring a USB stick to its original state
--------------------------------------------
+Create a bootable USB stick non-destructively
+---------------------------------------------
+
+ If you do not want to sacrifice a USB thumb drive for this (note that
+dumping the image file on the USB stick will destroy all data already
+present on the stick), there is a solution: Slackware also ships with a
+script usbimg2disk.sh since the 13.0 release (actually, it is the file
+/usb-and-pxe-installers/usbimg2disk.sh ). This script extracts the content
+from the 'usbboot.img' image file and uses this to transform a regular USB
+thumb drive into a bootable Slackware installer non-destructively (i.e. any
+existing files on the stick will not be touched). The only requirement is,
+that there is at least 30 MB of available free space on the stick.
+
+ The usbimg2disk.sh script is also convenient if your computer refuses to
+boot from a USB stick loaded with the usbboot.img file. The BIOS of some
+computers will not understand the format of the default Slackware USB
+image. Using the usbimg2disk.sh script, you create an alternative bootable
+USB stick that will be recognized by your computers BIOS.
+
+
+Restoring a USB stick to its original state (empty VFAT partition)
+------------------------------------------------------------------
When you have used the small 25 MB image to create a USB installer,
your USB stick is no longer useful for anything else. Any remaining
@@ -171,6 +191,7 @@ mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdx1 and create a partition interactively :-)
==========================================================
-Author: Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 22-jul-2009
+Author: Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> 17-feb-2011
+Blog post: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/installing-slackware-using-usb-thumb-drive/
Wiki URL: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:usbboot
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