Installing Slackware 11.0 using USB stick or PXE boot ===================================================== If you want to use NFS for installing Slackware, or have the packages already on a local disk, and don't want to be bothered by writing a Slackware bootable CDROM (or because you like the greater read speed of USB sticks), then this is for you: a script that creates the files you need for setting up PXE booting (i.e. booting the installer from the network) and for creating a bootable USB stick that contains the installer. You choose which of those is convenient - setting up a PXE server is not trivial, and not every PC can boot from a USB device. This directory contains several files, all of which are needed in the creation process. The shell script " create_slackboots.sh" creates the bootable USB image "usbboot.img" in /tmp/slackboot/. It takes it's sources from a local copy of the slackware-current tree (it needs the isolinux and kernels directories). The script's $SLACKROOT variable contains the directory name where the Slackware files are expected. Change SLACKROOT to the directory where your local Slackware copy resides. The variable $STAGING points to the directory where the hard work is done, and where the resulting output files can be found. In the process of creating the USB boot image, two other files are also created which can be used to setup a PXE server (so that you can boot from the network instead of using CDROM, floppy or USB stick): initrd.img pxelinux.cfg_default These files are used to create the "usbboot.img" file but are no longer needed once the USB image is ready. If you want to use those files and want to know more about PXE boot, see http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=alien:pxe for more information. If creating the image files is not something you'd want to try, use the pre-fabricated images which you can find in: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackboot/ =============================================================================== Eric Hameleers 21-sep-2006