Slackware Live Edition - Beta 3
Eric Hameleers has published his latest work on Slackware Live Edition - Beta 3. Many have suggested improvements and suggestions following up Beta 2 announcement. It seems that many people are interested in this idea and they helped on testing it, which is a good sign. It has been requested by some people long long time ago and with squashfs-tools being added into current, this long wishlist has become a reality.
More boot options are now supported in this release:
In this beta 3, all packages are updated with the latest -current update per December 23, KDE 5_15.12, and also MATE 1.12 (switched back to GTK+2 build). These ISOs should give you a real snapshot of what -current looks like at these moments. Cinnamon ISO was deleted due to disk space limitations, but it wasn't changed so if you have the old one, it's still the same.
Go get them now from these sites:
More boot options are now supported in this release:
- 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|S|s|single (Select another runlevel to start with; the default is 4 for graphical login)
- lang=nl_NL kbd=nl tz=Europe/Amsterdam (Example of language, keyboard and/or timezone customization)
- nop (No persistence, i.e. boot the virgin installation in case your ‘persistence’ directory got corrupted)
- nomodeset (Boot with kernel mode setting for graphics — needed with some machines)
- load=nvidia (Load and configure binary Nvidia drivers that are present in some of the ISOs)
- rootdelay=10 (Add 10 second delay to give the kernel more time to initialize USB – try this if the Live OS fails to boot)
- hostname=aliens (Change the hostname for the OS; default hostname is “darkstar“
- livepw=”somestring” (Change the password for the ‘live’ user)
- rootpw=”somestring” (Change the password for the ‘root’ user)
- load=mod1[,mod2[…]] (load one or more squashfs modules that are present in the directory “/liveslack/optional”; by default none of the modules in the “optional” directory are loaded)
- noload=mod1[,mod2[…]] (Prevent loading of one or more squashfs modules that are present in the directory “/liveslack/addons”; by default all of the modules in the “addons” directory are loaded on boot)
- rescue (After initialization, you will be dropped in a rescue shell where you can perform lowlevel maintenance; the same happens anyway if the OS fails to boot)
- debug (During init, pause at strategical locations while assembling the overlay filesystem and show relevant mount information)
- swap (Allow the Live OS to activate all swap partitions it finds on the local hardware; by default, the hard drive will not be touched at all)
- livemedia=/dev/sdX (Tell the init script which partition contains the Slackware Live OS you want to boot; this can become necessary if you have another copy of Slackware Live already installed to another drive partition)
- livemain=directoryname (Use this if you copied the content of the ISO to a different directory than the default “liveslak” directory)
In this beta 3, all packages are updated with the latest -current update per December 23, KDE 5_15.12, and also MATE 1.12 (switched back to GTK+2 build). These ISOs should give you a real snapshot of what -current looks like at these moments. Cinnamon ISO was deleted due to disk space limitations, but it wasn't changed so if you have the old one, it's still the same.
Go get them now from these sites:
- http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/
- http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/slackware-live/
- https://seattleslack.ryanpcmcquen.org/mirrors/slackware-live/
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/liveslak/
- http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/liveslak/