Custom Slax Bootable OS - Revision history

Beard at 18:34, 2 March 2020

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Beard at 21:28, 30 September 2019

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Beard at 21:21, 30 September 2019

2019-09-30T21:21:50Z

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Beard at 21:14, 30 September 2019

2019-09-30T21:14:37Z

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2019-09-30T21:13:46Z

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 If you want to go into the graphical desktop, you can run the command <code>startx</code>. To exit the desktop, open a terminal and run <code>killall Xorg</code>.
-You can now burn the image to a CD or DVD. If you want to create a bootable USB flash drive, follow the instructions here: https://www.slax.org/starting.php
+You can now burn the image to a CD or DVD.
 == Customization Script ==

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 This will take several minutes to run. When it's done, your final disk image should be located in: <b>/mnt/slax-custom64-build<DATE>.iso</b>
-Copy the image file off of the guest OS any way you want. You can copy it to you SSH server like before:
+Copy the image file off of the guest OS any way you want. You can copy it to your SSH server like before:
 <source>
 scp /mnt/slax-custom64-build<DATE>.iso user@10.1.2.2:/home/user/

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 # ================================================================
 apt-get update
-apt-get -y install binutils chntpw cifs-utils clamav curl dnsutils etherwake ffmpeg gddrescue gparted iftop john macchanger memtest86+ nmap ntfs-3g parted rar recordmydesktop rsync smbclient ssh sshfs steghide stress sudo tcpdump telnet testdisk tmux traceroute unrar vim wireshark
+apt-get -y install binutils chntpw cifs-utils clamav curl dnsutils etherwake ffmpeg gddrescue gparted iftop john macchanger memtest86+ nmap ntfs-3g parted rar recordmydesktop rsync smbclient ssh sshfs stress sudo tcpdump telnet testdisk tmux traceroute unrar vim wireshark
+#

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 [https://www.slax.org/ Slax] is an amazing Linux distro! This is the first time I've found a tolerable workflow for generating custom bootable Linux images, on the fly, for different purposes. Slax has all the features that I want as a base system for custom images, and it comes with scripts that make it easy to roll your changes into modules, which you can then incorporate into a new disk image. It's super fast and super easy.
 <b>Everything that I wanted:</b>
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 If you want to go into the graphical desktop, you can run the command <code>startx</code>. To exit the desktop, open a terminal and run <code>killall Xorg</code>.
 == Customization Script ==
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 == Procedure ==
-First, download Slax from their website: https://slax.org
+First, download Slax from the website: https://slax.org
 In this tutorial, I am using [http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/slax/Slax-9.x/slax-64bit-9.11.0.iso version 9.11.0] (64 bit).

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	[https://www.slax.org/ Slax] is an amazing Linux distro! This is the first time I've found a tolerable workflow for generating custom bootable Linux images, on the fly, for different purposes. Slax has all the features that I want as a base system for custom images, and it comes with scripts that make it easy to roll your changes into modules, which you can then incorporate into a new disk image. It's super fast and super easy.		[https://www.slax.org/ Slax] is an amazing Linux distro! This is the first time I've found a tolerable workflow for generating custom bootable Linux images, on the fly, for different purposes. Slax has all the features that I want as a base system for custom images, and it comes with scripts that make it easy to roll your changes into modules, which you can then incorporate into a new disk image. It's super fast and super easy.

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 I used VirtualBox to set up a VM for generating the custom Slax image: https://www.virtualbox.org/
-Be sure to have hardware virtualization enabled in your BIOS (Intel VT-x or AMD-V). Even when I tried to build a 32 bit version of Slax, the build process froze without hardware virtualization.
+Be sure to have hardware virtualization enabled in your BIOS (Intel VT-x or AMD-V). Even when I tried to build a 32 bit version of Slax, the build process froze without hardware virtualization enabled.
 I created a new VM with these properties:
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 You can right-click anywhere on the desktop and select "Terminal".
-One way or another, you will need to get the custom script [https://beardedmaker.com/wiki/images/files/slax01/gen-slax-custom.sh gen-slax-custom.sh] onto the guest OS. I['ll assume you have the script located in your home folder on another machine that has SSH enabled (where the IP address is 10.1.2.2).
+One way or another, you will need to get the custom script [https://beardedmaker.com/wiki/images/files/slax01/gen-slax-custom.sh gen-slax-custom.sh] onto the guest OS. I'll assume you have the script located in your home folder on another machine that has SSH enabled (where the IP address is 10.1.2.2).
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 scp user@10.1.2.2:/home/user/gen-slax-custom.sh $HOME/
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 This will take several minutes to run. When it's done, your final disk image should be located in: <b>/mnt/slax-custom64-build<DATE>.iso</b>
 == Customization Script ==

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 * Confirm overwriting disk partition (only prompts if your virtual disk already had a partition)
-This will take several minutes to run. When it's done, your final disk image should be located in: /mnt/
+This will take several minutes to run. When it's done, your final disk image should be located in: <b>/mnt/slax-custom64-build<DATE>.iso</b>
 == Customization Script ==

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 * Select a timezone
 * Confirm packages to be installed
+* Choose whether non-superusers can capture packets (Wireshark)
 == Customization Script ==