Make your pen-drive Linux with persistence!

'Pen-drive OS' Sounds … cool!!! Isn’t it?
Are you willing to use Linux without affecting your permanent OS. Or just wanna a pen-drive OS to repair your system. Here is a best one for you.

Requirements

• Pen-drive (4GB or more)
• Linux or Windows
• Slax iso or zip (http://www.slax.org/en/download.php)

System Requirements

• i486 or newer CPU, all Intel processors and AMD processors will work
• 48 MB of RAM for text-mode 256 MB of RAM for KDE desktop
• (Optional)network card, sound card

Setup slax on Windows:
Note : Make sure your are administrator

• Copy slax.zip(or iso) to pendrive
• Extract here (make sure all files inside archive are at root directory of pendrive(here E:\))
• Navigate to E:\slax\boot\
• Execute bootinst.bat

Setup slax on Linux:
Note : Make sure you are root user

• Format pen-drive as ext2
• Install GRUB2 on it. (how to install grub2 on any linux?)
• Write the following configuration in grub.cfg (you create grub.cfg at where directory where you installed GRUB)set default=6 set color_normal=cyan/blue set color_highlight=white/blue insmod ext2 menuentry "Slax 7.0.8" { search --file --no-floppy --set=root /slax/boot/initrfs.img linux /slax/boot/vmlinuz vga=normal initrd=/slax/boot/initrfs.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=perch,xmode initrd /slax/boot/initrfs.img } menuentry "Slax 7.0.8 (Text)" { search --file --no-floppy --set=root /slax/boot/initrfs.img linux /slax/boot/vmlinuz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags= initrd /slax/boot/initrfs.img }  
• Copy slax.zip(or iso) to pendrive
• Extract here (make sure all files inside archive are at root directory of pendrive(such that <mountdir>/slax))

Booting:

• Plug your pen-drive
• Reboot
• Open boot menu (Different companies provides different function keys to do it. eg. F7,F12 etc)
  
• Select your pen-drive
  
• We did it!