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slackware:usbboot [2006/10/02 20:55] – Some touch-ups to the text. alienslackware:usbboot [2008/11/18 16:30] – Slackware now does this out of the box. Mention that. alien
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 ====== Install Slackware using a bootable USB stick  ====== ====== Install Slackware using a bootable USB stick  ======
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 +<note>Please note that starting with Slackware 12.0 installing from USB stick or from the network (PXE boot) is supported out of the box!\\ You can find the USB bootable image file called ''usbboot.img'' in the **/usb-and-pxe-installers** directory. Also, Slackware contains modified versions of my Wiki pages in that same directory. They are called **README_USB.TXT** and **README_PXE.TXT**.\\ 
 +The remainder of this Wiki article is basically preserved here as a technical reference, but you are no longer required to follow all the instructions below. Check out the Slackware //README//s instead.
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 ===== Introduction ===== ===== Introduction =====
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 FIXME __This part remains to be written__ FIXME FIXME __This part remains to be written__ FIXME
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 ===== Restoring a USB stick to its original state ===== ===== Restoring a USB stick to its original state =====
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-  * Then, create a new FAT32 partition on the stick and write a FAT32 filesystem on it (vfat or //type 'b'// in fdisk terminology): <code>+  * Then, create a new FAT16 partition (//type '6'// in fdisk terminology) on the stick and write a FAT32 (vfat) filesystem on it: <code>
 fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF
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