Also ensure that your pendrive is a USB pendrive, and not a flash based MP3 player, as formatting it may render it inoperable as a music playing device. ALL DATA ON THE PENDRIVE WILL BE ERASED, SO BACKUP ANTHING IMPORTANT. Ensure that it is your pendrive that you are formatting in the drop down menu, and that you arent about to format anything important. Boot into Windows as usual, and download and install the HP USB Format Tool and format your pendrive using the FAT or FAT32 option (try FAT32 first, then FAT later if FAT32 doesn't work). I recommend that you read through the entire tutorial and troubleshooting sections first in order to obtain a clear understanding of what you are about to do.ġ. It should take less than ten minutes to complete once you have downloaded the appropriate files. This tutorial may look long winded and time consuming, but it really isn't, it's just explained in very very simple terms.

Refer to your motherboard handbook, or load the BIOS (see #6 below for instructions) to check that it allows USB booting. You can view your systems specifications by clicking Start>Run and entering 'DXDIAG' followed by 'Enter'. Also ensure that your BIOS supports booting from USB mass storage device. Please ensure that you have at least 32MB of RAM, and an i486 processor or better, Pentium or AMD are both OK.

WinRAR, WinZip or similar archiving tool (optional).

exe files.Įdited by Mike Allen 0722226 as the above link to HP is no longer available Please note that this will not work on the university computers, or any machine that won't let you access or modify the BIOS and run. Linux will also run faster than from a Live CD. This allows you to boot Slax directly from the USB drive, leaving your Windows installations perfectly untouched on your hard drive. This is a very simple tutorial for installing Slax Linux on a 256MB or larger USB pendrive.

Slax is based on Slackware Linux, and was created by Tomas, of. Installing Linux on a pendrive allows you to carry a powerful operating system around in your pocket. Posted by Andy Fletcher, 0608230 Installing Slax Linux onto a USB pendrive

1.1 Installing Slax Linux onto a USB pendrive.

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