Slackware install from USB issue

I am trying to install Slackware from a USB. (something I have never done)

I am following this guide [Install Slackware Using A USB Flash Drive - SlackWiki

Everything went fine until the end of the tutorial where the installer asks for a source.

fdisk -l reveals the usb is recognized as /dev/sdb1p1

However that did not work.

I ran cfdisk /dev/sdb and it showed a partition table with sdb1 as a bootable partition with a label of [SlackDVD].

/dev/sdb1 as a source parition is greeted with a prompt that says it needs to know the full path of the directories containing installation files.

How do I get the full path? I don't know what to do here I am stuck.

Have you tried /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1. I ran into this issue with Puppy Linux once.
By the way. I don't run Slackware.

Also. Maybe using UUID maybe may be the way to go also.

Code:

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# blkid
/dev/hda1: UUID="EC74EAD474EAA096" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/hda3: UUID="aac76329-7a74-45c5-b9eb-f6e675a1f939" TYPE="swap"
/dev/hda4: LABEL="/" UUID="856fa346-17f4-43ad-90f9-0277bb8cdde5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/hda5: LABEL="/home" UUID="3620a6b2-99ec-4cc9-8fed-b36a662d79e7" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda6: LABEL="/" UUID="33d2cb14-08cc-4db8-80c6-771828e68200" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda7: UUID="f32a719a-19dd-432f-8178-9e3486ffbe13" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda8: LABEL="/data1" UUID="E9A8-C3E1" TYPE="vfat"

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Good luck with it.

Well I finally got some free time and I figured it out.

To recap: Follow this tutorial. Install Slackware Using A USB Flash Drive - SlackWiki
Follow it exactly. (I am not kidding). I used a Slack 13.37 DVD iso. The full enchilada but before you head out look in it to find where the program directory tree is. Mine was in /slackware.

Before I ran setup I did fdisk -l and found what my usb was called. In this case it was /dev/sdb1.

Make a directory and mount the usb. <mkdir bozo> then <mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /bozo>
Then <cd /bozo> and enter <ls> You should see the /slackware tree there with all the progam goodies.

When it got to Source Media Selection I went for option 6: 'Install From a Pre Mounted Directory'

I should have been using that, not option 2.

When the promt comes up to eneter the path for me it was /bozo/slackware and the install went fine.


I now have Slackware :-D