General:: Installing Slax From USB Drive On HD Feb 7, 2011 I am running Slax Linux from my USB drive and now I want to install it in my computer. What should I do? Similar Messages: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ADVERTISEMENT May 21, 2010 I decided to finally give it a try last night and made a Live USB for Slax. It booted up quickly, pretty much everything worked right away, and after getting the Wifi working I decided to call it a night. My project for today was attempting to install Java, but I haven't had much success. There are modules on the Slax site for this, but a. They are unverified and b. I want to delve into linux further than just downloading everything off a website. I downloaded the latest Java package for linux, which was a self-extracting.bin. I followed steps 1 through 4 here, but step 5 didn't work. I got the error message Quote: Extracting. UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP ([email protected]). Inflating: jre-6u20-linux-i586.rpm error: db4 error(2) from dbenv->open: No such file or directory error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm I then tried using the rpm -UvH command on the rpm file, but got the same error. Knowing that Slax modules are.lzm files, I used rpm2tgz and tgz2lzm to convert it to a module, but it still doesn't work. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction, other than 'Download this unverified module from the Slax site.' Jan 2, 2010 - What if we could install and carry an operating system of our choice from the. To install Virtualbox in your removable drive, go to vbox. Such as Slax with Virtualbox installed? That way it doesn't matterhat os you have. How to Convert Virtual Machines from VMware to VirtualBox and Vice Versa. ![]() In addition, a problem I haven't encountered yet but is foreseeable: In those instructions that I linked above for downloading and installing Java, the 'Enable and Configure' section requires altering parts of the Firefox install directory. However, since this is Slax, Firefox is in a module. To do that part, do I have to use lzm2dir in order to get into Firefox's innerworkings, or what? Jan 9, 2010 Is it possible to install new slax module (from slax site) on ancient backtrack 2? Or it won't work because of versions? I would like to update tor by installing this module on bt2: Oct 26, 2010 How to solve this: I've installed GIMP 2.7.1 (OS Slax), but it doesn't work. Clicking on icon doesn't start GIMP. In Shell: kdesu /usr/bin/gimp gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgegl-0.1.so.0: undefined symbol: g_dgettext I cannot run most of apps, including mono. Apr 19, 2010 So, I was playing with Fathom's new Slax Remix with Zen kernel 2.6.33 and decided to try a manual install to hdd and see if it would boot. New slax remix is here: [URL]I surprised when after doing the install I ended up with a beautiful and fully functional KDE desktop all in 860MB of space! Although many things will break if upgrading, etc. I was impressed that with KDE running it was only using about 140MB ram! Incl cache, etc. And, fluxbox is included too as well as pkgtool, and xwmconfig.
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