usbboot.img installer

I just installed Slackware -current. I got some troubles but perhaps they are related to the way I used to install.

I created iso file with only /a series of packages. I set this iso on usb pendrive. During installation iso file was mounted on /slack

Here what I did
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1) dd usbboot.img onto hard drive - it runs ok kernel boots, system starts 2) created 1 partition and swap on /dev/sda 3) created and mounted iso file I mentioned earlier 4) run setup

There is option to install from pre-mounted directory. Setup saw top installation directory. Problem was that during installation setup did not create FSH on target partition /mnt.

I was surprised cause seeing there only /mnt/etc, /mnt/var. But most top directories were missing: /mnt/lib, and so on.

For some reasons setup didn't signal error. I just manually created all these missing directories. Then I installed all packages with command installpkg --root /mnt option.

I tried to chroot to /mnt. Yet bash complained about missing library libtinfo.so.6 . In fact it was missing link. I created this link. Then I was capable to chroot to /mnt.

Working in chroot environment I managed to finish installation.

I know it was unusual way but nonetheless setup should work.