In Slax you can use the boot parameter changes=/path/
to get a persistent directory for your changed files
or changes of the system.
path would be the place, where you want your changes
saved.This can be anywhere on an existing harddisk partition
or on a mounted USB stick.
Instead of booting from a CD , where the Slax .iso file
has been burnt with the special iso burning command,
which can be found in the menus of Nero and other
burning programs (simple copying of the downloaded .iso
does not work), Slax can be booted also from a bootable USB stick,
containing Syslinux. This is so fast, that it is mostly
not necessary to install Slax on its own partition on
harddisk.
As Slax by default runs only as root, it is advisable to
add a personal user account, because working as root
all the time means giving possible intruders the possibility to
do everything they want on your computer with administrator
rights. Adding a user is quite easy in Slax, which I consider
to be an important advantage compared with Puppy, where adding
a full user account is quite difficult, if not impossible
for most.
To add an additional user in Slax, I would open the Terminal
window (menu -> System -> Konsole), where you are already root,
and first change the root password with the command :
passwd
Then add a user with the command :
adduser yourselectedusername
This will create a home directory in /home with
the selected user name, for example /home/slaxer ,
if you would select "slaxer" as your user name.
The following questions in the Terminal can all be
answered with the Enter key without changes, except
the question for the groups, to which the new user
wants to be added.
Answer this simply pressing the key "Up Arrow", to add
the user to all groups, and then the Enter key.
This is important, because it is necessary to hear
music with the user account, for example.
When you are asked for a user passwd, select a personal one.
To become the user without administrator rights,
write into the Terminal :
/sbin/init 3
and press the Enter key.
This will close the GUI and bring you to the text-based
console, where you will be asked to login with your
user name. Write the name, for example
slaxer
and then the Enter key.
Give the passwd of slaxer, and press the Enter key again.
You can then start the GUI, writing :
startx
and press the Enter key.
You can use K-Meleon in Slax with the emulator wine.
To get the wine module, open the browser Konqueror and go to
http://slax.org/modules
In the search box enter
wine
Download it to your Home directory , for example /home/slaxer.
To become root, when you are a simple user, write into the Terminal:
su
Enter the root password, that you have chosen at the beginning.
Then write :
activate /home/yourusername/wine
and press the Tabulator tab.
This will complete the name wine to the full name of the wine.lzm file.
Press Enter.
This will install wine.
To become the simple user again write :
exit
Download one of my K-Meleon variations for Linux to your Home directory or to /opt.
For example the simple version K-Meleon-NX-18121, from here:
http://one.xthost.info/eichhein/K-Meleon-NX-18121.zip
(An existing official version should possibly work too.)
Click on the Home icon in the taskbar.
You will find the zipped browser in your Home directory.
Right click on it and select
Open with Ark.
In the Ark window, click on the icon Extract.
This will unzip K-Meleon into your Home directory.
To make it work in Linux you will need two additional .dlls from the Internet,
for example from
http://dll-files.com
Search there for the dlls msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll.
Download them and unzip them as described above.
Open a second instance of your Home directory clicking on the Home icon
in the taskbar again.
Open the K-Meleon main folder and pull msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll over from the second window.
Click (single click only necessary) on K-Meleon.exe .
A window will open asking how you want to open that .exe file.
Write into the box
wine
and enable the little box "always open with" at the bottom.
This will open K-Meleon, and all other .exe files from
added Windows programs with wine from now on,
if they are started clicking in the file manager Konqueror
or from a menu entry, if confirmed there.
A useful double window file manager for Linux to add would be
emelfm2, which is probably also available as a slax module.
Another useful module would be kdesu , to enable sudo, to start apps with administrator rights if necessary.
It is also possible to add other slim windows managers like Xfce,
Icewm, Fluxbox or Openbox.
Regards and good luck with Linux.
Fred