I want to make a live usb stick of either 15.0
or current. I have tried 5 different mirrors, including
Alien Bob, and they either time out before I get the
whole file, or when dd'd to a usb stick they don't work.

Thanks.

root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
> I want to make a live usb stick of either 15.0
> or current. I have tried 5 different mirrors, including
> Alien Bob, and they either time out before I get the
> whole file, or when dd'd to a usb stick they don't work.

Slackware's mirror list is at: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/

Just try ones in the same country as you.

Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
download.

If the checksums do not match, then you got a bogus download. Try
again until you get a good download.

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>
> Slackware's mirror list is at: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/
>
> Just try ones in the same country as you.
>
> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
> or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
> reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
> failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
> download.
>
> If the checksums do not match, then you got a bogus download. Try
> again until you get a good download.

Thanks for responding. I wasn't able to find live versions of, say,
current on the standard mirror sites. I googled for:
slackware live current

And started working through the sites that came up. Just watching the
expected download times is depressing. Right now, one says 7 days
for 4.3GB.

root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Slackware's mirror list is at: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/
>>
>> Just try ones in the same country as you.
>>
>> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
>> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
>> or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
>> reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
>> failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
>> download.
>>
>> If the checksums do not match, then you got a bogus download. Try
>> again until you get a good download.
>
> Thanks for responding. I wasn't able to find live versions of, say,
> current on the standard mirror sites. I googled for:
> slackware live current
>
> And started working through the sites that came up. Just watching the
> expected download times is depressing. Right now, one says 7 days
> for 4.3GB.

No wonder it times out, that is a slow download by today's standards.

What speed connection to the internet do you have? If you don't know,
you can try speedtest.com.

On 15/05/22 19:59, root wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Slackware's mirror list is at: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/
>>
>> Just try ones in the same country as you.
>>
>> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
>> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
>> or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
>> reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
>> failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
>> download.
>>
>> If the checksums do not match, then you got a bogus download. Try
>> again until you get a good download.
>
> Thanks for responding. I wasn't able to find live versions of, say,
> current on the standard mirror sites. I googled for:
> slackware live current
>
> And started working through the sites that came up. Just watching the
> expected download times is depressing. Right now, one says 7 days
> for 4.3GB.
>

https://download.liveslak.org
/

On Sun, 15 May 2022 16:52:59 +0000, Rich wrote:
> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
> or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
> reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
> failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
> download.

If you want to be really sure that the files are OK you could also check
the gnupg signature of the file CHECKSUMS.md5 by running:

gpg --verify CHECKSUMS.md5.asc

That should give you an output looking something like:

gpg: assuming signed data in `CHECKSUMS.md5'
gpg: Signature made Sun May 15 22:23:44 2022 CEST using DSA key ID
40102233
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 1f, 0u
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2038-01-19
gpg: Good signature from "Slackware Linux Project
<security@slackware.com>"

However, before running gpg like that you will need to import the
Slackware public key to your keyring. First, you should get the public
key from a trustworthy source, best would be if you could get it from an
old purchased original Slackware media.

The file GPG-KEY from the media is imported by:

gpg --import GPG-KEY

If you are sure that the GPG-KEY has not been tampered with you should
also sign it:

gpg --edit-key security@slackware.com
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.23; Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

pub 1024D/40102233 created: 2003-02-26 expires: 2038-01-19 usage: SCA
trust: full validity: unknown
sub 1024g/4E523569 created: 2003-02-26 expires: 2038-01-19 usage: E
[ unknown] (1). Slackware Linux Project <security@slackware.com>

gpg> sign
Your current signature on "Slackware Linux Project
<security@slackware.com>"
has expired.
Do you want to issue a new signature to replace the expired one? (y/N) y

pub 1024D/40102233 created: 2003-02-26 expires: 2038-01-19 usage: SCA
trust: full validity: unknown
Primary key fingerprint: EC56 49DA 401E 22AB FA67 36EF 6A44 63C0 4010
2233

Slackware Linux Project <security@slackware.com>

This key is due to expire on 2038-01-19.
Are you sure that you want to sign this key with your
key "Henrik Carlqvist <henca@users.sourceforge.net>" (94066DCB)

Really sign? (y/N) y

gpg> quit
Save changes? (y/N) y

regards Henrik

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> No wonder it times out, that is a slow download by today's standards.
>
> What speed connection to the internet do you have? If you don't know,
> you can try speedtest.com.

I have a gigabit connection. The download time was not accurately
reflected by the continuing report. The download did finish.
In searching around the 15.0 docs, I came across a statement that
from now on, the .iso files could be copied either to dvd or usb.
The live copy I downloaded did not follow that promise. I had
to expand it and use unetbootin. It finally got it to work.

Thanks for responding.

Chris Elvidge <chris@slack15-a.local> wrote:
>>
>
> https://download.liveslak.org
> /

Thanks.
>

Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2022 16:52:59 +0000, Rich wrote:
>> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
>> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a stick
>> or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can be
>> reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so any
>> failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after the
>> download.
>
> If you want to be really sure that the files are OK you could also check
> the gnupg signature of the file CHECKSUMS.md5 by running:
>
> gpg --verify CHECKSUMS.md5.asc
>

Thanks for responding Henrik. The md5sum did check, that was not my
problem. I had done: dd if=isofile of=/dev/somedev. The resulting
USB stick did not boot. Instead I used unetbootin and got a working
stick.

On Sun, 15 May 2022 20:00:43 +0000, Rich wrote:

> root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Slackware's mirror list is at:
>>> https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/
>>>
>>> Just try ones in the same country as you.
>>>
>>> Also, verify you got the data without something glitching by checking
>>> the files using the CHECKSUMS.md5 file before you try moving to a
>>> stick or booting what you download. If the checksums match, you can
>>> be reasonably sure you have the same bytes as the original file, so
>>> any failure to boot is something that is occurring on your end after
>>> the download.
>>>
>>> If the checksums do not match, then you got a bogus download. Try
>>> again until you get a good download.
>>
>> Thanks for responding. I wasn't able to find live versions of, say,
>> current on the standard mirror sites. I googled for:
>> slackware live current
>>
>> And started working through the sites that came up. Just watching the
>> expected download times is depressing. Right now, one says 7 days for
>> 4.3GB.
>
> No wonder it times out, that is a slow download by today's standards.
>
> What speed connection to the internet do you have? If you don't know,
> you can try speedtest.com.

Tht will be irrelvant alien bobs sigtes dont like some parts of the
world, its his provider not Eric doing it, and often it would be 4kb/s,
he setup a US site to get around that but I forget its URL.