From 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:37:00 +0000 Subject: Slackware 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! --- usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT') diff --git a/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT b/usb-and-pxe-installers/README_USB.TXT index a1f436dd..a8079fee 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 22-jul-2009 +Author: Eric Hameleers 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 -- cgit v1.2.3