Insralling from a live disk
Posted: 8. Nov 2025, 17:19
When I encountered this problem, I posted in in the problems section, since it might be me. But actually it's you.
I downloaded the live version and put it on a usb stick. It booted perfectly but it would not install. This computer has UEFI and I wanted to install in /dev/sda5. The installation tool did not give me the ability to install to anything. I found experimentally that it was checking for a boot flag on a partition — any partition would do, even sda5 — and then it would offer to install, but only on sda2 or sda3. The live medium had detected the UEFI system — the initial programs included one called efiboot and the installer offered a choice between grub and elilo. So it recognised UEFI but didn't know what to do with it.
One of the advantages of Salix over Slackware is the live version. If someone likes it, they shouldn't have to download a second iso to install it.
I downloaded the live version and put it on a usb stick. It booted perfectly but it would not install. This computer has UEFI and I wanted to install in /dev/sda5. The installation tool did not give me the ability to install to anything. I found experimentally that it was checking for a boot flag on a partition — any partition would do, even sda5 — and then it would offer to install, but only on sda2 or sda3. The live medium had detected the UEFI system — the initial programs included one called efiboot and the installer offered a choice between grub and elilo. So it recognised UEFI but didn't know what to do with it.
One of the advantages of Salix over Slackware is the live version. If someone likes it, they shouldn't have to download a second iso to install it.