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Building a live USB flash drive for a test drive

Trying out trlinux using a USB flash drive. This can all be done from a Windows PC.

• Set up slax on a USB flash drive
  • Go to http://www.slax.org and either follow directions there or
    on http://www.slax.org click Download
  • Find Slax English (US) and Click on 32 bit ZIP. This will download the latest version which is currently slax-English-US-7.0.8-i486.zip
  • Extract the zip file directly to the flash drive's top level
  • Navigate to the flash drive's slax/boot subdirectory, and double click on
    bootinst.bat
    to make the flash drive bootable.
• Next add the additional slax modules needed to run trlog. These are libsndfile, flac, libieee1284, and liberation-fonts-ttf.
  • Again on http://www.slax.org
  • Click on Modules
  • In the search box type libsndfile
    Click on 32bit to download.
  • In the search box type flac
    Click on 32bit to download (next to the module flac).
  • In the search box type libieee1284
    Click on 32bit to download
  • In the search box type liberation
    Click on 32bit to download
  • Copy these four modules into the slax/modules subdirectory of the flash drive (they will have names like: 2615-libsndfile.sb, 558-libieee1284.sb, 2655-flac.sb, 922-liberation-fonts-ttf.sb)
  • Download the current trlinux_rn.nn.sb from here, and copy this module to slax/modules as well.
• Now reboot your computer choosing the flash drive as your boot device. Usually you need to hit one of the function keys, or delete, as the computer boots up to choose the boot device. Sometimes you will need to change the BIOS setup to allow booting from a USB flash drive.
• On boot up, you should see the Slax boot screen, and eventually a desktop. Double Click the "Normal trlog window" icon. An xterm should pop up, and you can type trlog. Follow the prompts as for DOS trlog.
• Be aware that because of the slow access time of the flash drive, TR's performance is substantially worse when running from the flash drive than it is from a hard drive install. It should be adequate for a test drive to see if you want to try it with a full linux install or dual boot.