HowTo install LivEPICS Slax 6.0 on USB key
(that is the exactly the same procedure to install the regular Slax)

How to put LivEPICS Slax 6.0 to USB drive or disk

LivEPICS for USB is a Slax customized distribution in TAR format, designed to be unpacked to a writable disk. LivEPICS for USB is set to save all changes you make to the boot device (disk), so it will behave like a normally installed operating system.

How to make it bootable

When LivEPICS_Slax60_w_Nagios.tar is unpacked to your device, it will create '/boot/' and '/slax/' directories there. Only one more step is needed to make LivEPICS boot from your USB device or disk: you have to manually navigate to the newly created /boot/ directory and run bootinst.sh script (if you are in Linux) or bootinst.bat script (if you are in Windows).

The method mentioned above will simply install syslinux bootloader to your device's MBR (master boot record). Syslinux works only on FAT filesystem (which is widely used on most USB flash keys, Cameras and MP3 players). If your device or disk is formated using a different filesystem (it is strongly recommended to use a native Linux filesystem like XFS), you will have to use 'liloinst.sh' script instead. Currently, liloinst doesn't provide the same nice boot menu like syslinux, but this will be implemented soon.