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slackware:install [2013/12/09 09:15 (UTC)] – [Post Installation] Formatting alienbobslackware:install [2014/03/15 11:37 (UTC)] (current) – [Slackware installation] mention that official ISOs are treated with isohybrid. alienbob
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 The latest versions of Slackware Linux are distributed on DVD or CD media, but Slackware can be installed in a variety of other ways. We're only going to focus on the most common method - booting from a DVD - in this book. 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. 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. The files there are the best source of information available for such boot methods. The latest versions of Slackware Linux are distributed on DVD or CD media, but Slackware can be installed in a variety of other ways. We're only going to focus on the most common method - booting from a DVD - in this book. 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. 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. The files there are the best source of information available for such boot methods.
  
-A HOWTO on setting up a PXE boot server right off a Slackware installation medium (DVD or USB Stick) is available in this separate article: [[slackware:pxe_install|Out of the box Slackware PXE Server]]+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 
 +using [[http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE|isohybrid]]. This allows them to be written to a USB stick, which can then be booted and used as the install source.
  
 +A HOWTO on setting up a PXE boot server right off a Slackware installation medium (DVD or USB Stick) is available in this separate article: [[slackware:pxe_install|Out of the box Slackware PXE Server]]
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