Some computers allow you to change the boot order on the fly by pressing a specific function key during system boot-up. You may have to enter your computer's BIOS and alter the boot order to place the optical drive at a higher boot priority than your hard drives. This allows them to be written to a USB stick, which can then be booted and used as the install source.Ī HOWTO on setting up a PXE boot server right off a Slackware installation medium (DVD or USB Stick) is available in this separate article: Out of the box Slackware PXE Server Booting the Installerīooting the installer is simply a process of inserting the Slackware install disk into your CD or DVD drive and rebooting.
Starting with the 14.1 release, Slackware ISO images (both the ones available online as well as the discs sent out from the Slackware store) have been processed The files there are the best source of information available for such boot methods. This directory includes the necessary files and instructions for booting the Slackware installer from a USB flash drive or from a network card that supports PXE. If you don't have a CD or DVD drive, you might wish to take a look at the various README files inside the usb-and-pxe-installers directory at your favorite Slackware mirror. We're only going to focus on the most common method - booting from a DVD - in this book. The latest versions of Slackware Linux are distributed on DVD or CD media, but Slackware can be installed in a variety of other ways. Don't panic! The installation is very easy once you understand it, and it works on just about any x86 platform. If you've never installed Slackware or used a distribution that makes use of a non-graphical installer, you may feel a bit overwhelmed at first. If you're familiar with those, you should feel right at home. Slackware's installation is a bit more simplistic than that of most other Linux distributions and is very reminiscent of installing one of the varieties of BSD operating systems.
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