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 This article shows how to boot the Slackware installation environment from a hard drive instead of the usual installation media. This article shows how to boot the Slackware installation environment from a hard drive instead of the usual installation media.
  
-The Slackware installation environment is a small live Linux system with busybox, partitioning and another useful utilities, and the ''setup'' program. It starts automatically when you boot your system from Slackware install media: CD, DVD, USB stick or PXE.+The Slackware installation environment is a small live Linux system with busybox, partitioning and some other useful utilities, and the ''setup'' program. It starts automatically when you boot your system from Slackware install media: CD, DVD, USB stick or PXE.
  
 In order to boot the Slackware installation environment without creating install media you need an image of this boot environment, a suitable Linux kernel, and a boot loader. In order to boot the Slackware installation environment without creating install media you need an image of this boot environment, a suitable Linux kernel, and a boot loader.

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