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How to install slax 7
How to install slax 7








It is an excellent distribution and very fast since it runs from RAM. I have also changed time zone removed many keyboard layouts which are not required added Hindi (IN) Keyboard and installed additional fonts through KDE Control Centre. 1) Boot up from your slax CD (in this eg, the slax CD is /mnt/hda/) 2) Determine what your USB or HDD device is (in this eg, I will use /dev/sdb), create a partition on the device and format the partition to ext3 using g-parted or cfdisk (search the forum on how to do this). Then I activated the module through Slax Module Manager.

how to install slax 7 how to install slax 7

"changes=/dev/hda8" is the cheatcode for saving configurations since Slax is a Live CD distribution which is loaded into RAM.Īfter setting up the Network connection (Slax sets up automatically if it is dhcp but mine is static ip) I went to Slax site and downloaded Firefox module from this page.Īfter downloading I copied the module to /mnt/hda8/slax/modules so that it is available permanently. Kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=6666 rw changes=/dev/hdd8 Then I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the following line: Then I copy the contents of the iso on /media/hda8 (hda8 is 1 GB partition formatted in ext3) by following command: After slax booted, format hard drive, copy slax directory to hard. Run bootinst.bat inside the flash drive 3. Mount slax-6.0.1.iso -o loop /tmp/install_cd Open slax iso and extract to flash drive 2. I keep a spare 1 GB partition on my hard disc where I copy the iso and modify /boot/grub/menu.lst file to boot directly from the iso without burning CD.įirst I create a "install_cd" directory in /tmp and mount the iso on it by the following commands:

how to install slax 7

Today I downloaded the latest updated version Slax 6.0.1 which has fixed many bugs in Slax 6.0 which was launched on 13th Feb 2008. I love Puppy Linux because of its speed but Slax is equally fast and it has KDE desktop.










How to install slax 7