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This is an Unofficial FAQ for SLAX.

There have been a few problems that I have experienced that not only have been irratating to deal with but they have given me an insight to SLAX and its inner workings. I hope others will benefit from this FAQ and I hope its contents will be added to the Official FAQ.

Good News!! I have added a HowTo Index/FAQ List to the SLAX forums! Visit here for the "Official FAQ" and come back here for the work in progress "Unofficial" FAQ.

Q: How do I change the splash screen for SLAX?

A: Actually there are TWO spash screens you can change in SLAX. If you use syslinux as your bootloader, you can have a simple splash screen and then there is the Kernel Boot Spash Screen

For the syslinux splash screen you can do the following:

1) You need a picture.
2) You need ImageMagick

A) Convert your picture to imagemagick routines.

cd /tmp
convert /tmp/logo.gif /tmp/logo.ppm

B) Reduce the amount of colors in the picture's palette.
mogrify -colors 16 logo.ppm
ppmtolss16 < /tmp/logo.ppm > /tmp/splash.lss

Without using mogrify your picture may seem unviewable.

C) Copy the splash.lss file to the top directory of SLAX (the same place that /boot directory is) as well as the boot directory.

cp /tmp/splash.lss /mnt/sda1_removable
cp /tmp/splash.lss /mnt/sda1_removable/boot

posted by TheGuardian  # 12:54 PM