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When complete this page will tell: How to make a ZombieDrive.
1. Get the Needed Hardware and Network Connection.
The first step is to get three 32 GB or larger USB 3.0 or better
flashdrives and a working Main Slackware installation on a PC with an
internet connection and room on internal hard drive or SSD storage for
a second Slackware installation (the Basis). You will need a way
to choose between the Main installation of Slackware and the Basis when
booting, so give this some thought up front. I solved the problem
by using Slackware on a bootable flashdrive (ZombieSlack) for the Main
installation. You can do this too if you can get your hands on
bootable Linux flashdrive that works for you. Or if you have
another way to solve this problem, that's great!
For the three flash drives I recommend buying new Samsung Bar brand,
type-A. Label them each with adhesive labels such as what you can
make with a Brother® P-touch® Electronic Label Maker, PTM95. If you
use a small font, then trim the labels with a scissors, each label will
fit nicely on the metal body of the flash drive (see picture).
Label them with "datenames" made from eight characters in this
format:
Use the current date followed by two letters to distinguish the
drives. Use "aa" for the first or only drive, and "ab", "ac",
etc. for subsequent drives made on the same date. For example,
if you made lableled three drives on March 18, 2025, use these
labels:
Use the flashdrives as follows—I'll refer to them by the above
datenames, but you should, of course, use your actual datenames.
Note that the SAM.Zombie library contains tools that work well on
flashdrives. (You may find that you need to skip ahead to step 2
and study the software.) They can be used for making partitions,
formatting file systems, and installing Grub. These tools were
designed for the task of installing ZombieSlack to a
flashdrive—in this example, 250318ac—but you may find them
helpful when preparing the first two flashdrives as well.
250318aa: I recommend that you make two partitions on
this drive: Use one partition for a Dual directory,
SAM.Zombie, and any other supporting software that you download or
create. Use the other for the SAM installation. 250318ab: This flashdrive is optional. Make
partitions on this drive that suit your needs. I recommend
that you use this drive to hold a downloaded Slackware install
image, and perhaps you'll find other uses for it as well.
I have a flashdrive such as this that I have made bootable by
installing Grub to it. I have configured grub and the grub.cfg
file on this flashdrive to boot the Slackware install image.
If you have some other way to boot the install image—perhaps a
DVD—feel free to use it. You will need to boot the
install image to run the Slackware install and create a Basis on the
remaining flashdrive. 250318ac: This is the target drive for installing
ZombieSlack.
Notes:
2. Get and Learn to Use the Needed Software.
Download the latest versions of SAM and SAM.Zombie from
https://rosevearsoftware.com. Install SAM and SAM.Zombie, and
learn how to use SAM.
3. Make the Basis.
Boot the Slackware install image and follow these directions to
install Slackware, thus making the Basis:
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Run up_basis. Use "O".
Run stamp.
4. Run Install.
Shut down, boot the Main installation, and run install.
These links explain why "--removable" is used in grub-i, and they
give useful background information:
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