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SOLVED hdinstall from liveusb (was "is doc handobook manual installation wrong?")

ernia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:59:28 +0100

The installation by hand section in this document http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation says to give these commands:

 # cd /mnt/target
 # lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id 
 # rm rootfs.gz init

but "lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id" will lead cpio trying to overwrite files in / and not to write files in /mnt/target, as usual if i'm not wrong.
i got it working installing the real cpio (tazpkg get-install cpio) and changing "lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id" in "lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames".
i don't know how to do this with busybox's cpio.
should the doc get corrected?

[SOLVED] setterm receipt

Gawron — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:18:28 +0100

Does anybody know in which SliTaz package is command setterm?
In advance thanks for your help.
Best regards.

Power management

Yoav — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:22:01 +0100

Hi,

How do I do power management in SliTaz? How do I get the screen to automatically turn off etc?

Cheers,

Yoav

Failed to open /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory;Permission Denied (OLD Couldn't find rootfs.gz)

Speed3210 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:40:17 +0100

I downloaded the slitaz-3.0.iso and took it with Linux Live USB Creator on a 8GB USB stick. Now I boot from it on my old netbook and sart withhout installation. If I go to the SliTaz Installer now, there comes an error message: "Could not find file rootfs.gz" ! How can I fix it? and besides, I have honestly no idea how to do that with these partitions, and what I need to write to "mount" something. Please answer wizth words for absolute beginners ! Sorry for my bad english. Im german.

Huawei 3G E1552 USB modem in Slitaz 3.0?

insomniacno1 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:03:11 +0100

Hi there, I need some help - I think I have tried most of the solutions available for slitaz without any luck. My modem is not recognized in any of my 4 USB ports, that is - it is by lsusb, and by dsmesg but as storage device, same goes for lsmod. But when it comes to 3G modem setup it doesn't find the modem.

My modem works fine in Peppermint One, after installing Usb_modeswitch and doing this:

Instructions:

1. Insert your Huawei USB.
2. From a terminal window, type:

lsusb

hit Enter and you should see an output like this:

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1bcf:0007 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

3. The output will show the vendor ID and the product ID (12d1 and 1001 in the above example - it might be different on your machine) .

4. Create a udev rule by typing

gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/15-huawei-e620.rules

I named my file 15-huawei-e620.rules because that's what lsusb showed from no. 2 then copy+paste the code below:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idProduct}=="1001",SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1",RUN+="/lib/udev/modem-modeswitch --vendor 0x12d1 --product 0x1001 --type option-zerocd"

Just be sure to replace (if necessary) the correct values you got for your product and vendor IDs.
Save the file and type exit to close the terminal window.

5. Safely remove the USB drive then reinsert.

6. In my machine, the Gnome network manager didn't automatically detect my USB, so I had to create a new Mobile Broadband connection manually. Just right-click on the network manager icon, choose Edit Connections, go to Mobile Broadband, and click Add.

This works like a charm on Peppermint but doesn't work in Slitaz, which I like better because my laptop don't have so much Ram, or fast CPU.

These are the things I tried:

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/2206/usb-3g-modem-cant-find-it-in-devtty/

With the limitation of grep, for which I could not get installed. Neither could I get modprobe option to give me a reply.

Also I couldn't get the sakis3g script to run, hough I followed this guide to the dot:

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/2273/the-sakis3g-attempt-working/p1

I even tried this:

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:cricket-a600

But flipflop.sh wouldn't run. In xterm I got this error:

#sh flipflop.sh not found

Anyone have a complete guide without links to other sites so you have to guess how to do it? I'm not a newbie to computers but I am to Linux, I have tried many distro's to find one that would run on my laptop taking minimum system resources.

Puppy Linux is good, but limited in the way you can install other programs. Basically all ubuntu derivaties are too heavy. Peppermint One is ok but still too slow sometimes.
DSL don't work well on this laptop.

Slitaz is the one I like best now. So I really like to get my USB modem working.

Hope someone can help:)

JBJ

Graphics Driver: VIA Chrome9

kasumi — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:22:00 +0100

Hello. I've got some problems getting my VIA Chrome 9 graphics driver working.

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/748/tentando-instalar-a-placa-de-video-via-chrome-9-hc-igp/p1 I've found and read this thread, (I don't speak Español) but still it doesn't work.
I've installed the tazpkg from the THIRD POST, FIRST LINK.
When I editet the lines: (xorg.conf)

............lá na Section "Device", onde tem uma linha do tipo:

Driver     "vesa"

Mude para:
Driver "openchrome"..............

the PC doesn't start up anymore. It's a Netbook: HP 2133 mini.

I had to boot with my live-CD and undo this action in xorg.conf.

change net work and pppoe

eccentric — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:00:22 +0100

I find i am unable to change the addresses, as downloaded from your site to the ones i use here, i type them in but, they will not remain changed when i try to get on to the internet.

but when i used Slitaz some years ago it worked?????

any help will be most welcome.

Michael an eccentric English man Nanning China.

What Games/Emulators would you like to see in SliTaz?

Trixar_za — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:53:28 +0200

Hey, I'm busy converting over packages from debian lenny and thought I would ask what you guys would like to see in SliTaz.

So far I've converted The Mana world (TMW) Client (and dependacies), ManaPlus (a more feature rich TMW client), ScummVM, VisualBoy Advance (and GTK front-end) and ZSNES - my goal is to convert them over with the least amount of extra dependacies.

Anyway, give a shout here and I'll try to do a conversion. Also suggestions where I can put packages bigger than 2MB would also be welcome. Web host restriction... *sigh*.

EDIT: I have most of the packages up @ http://www.trixarian.za.net/?Projects:SliTaz - I still need to find a host for ScummVM because it's too big for my host (3.1MB).
EDIT2: Currently hosting ScummVM on Box.net with the forwarding link in the right place - Enjoy :P

Slitaz Branded Merchandise?

Deagon — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:40:28 +0100

I wonder what the community thinks of slitaz branded merchandise. i dont intend too or have the capability to make such things, but i was looking a few moments ago for 'Designed for linux' stickers (like the windows ones) and thought that slitaz ought to have some self branded merch.. to raise funds for the developers and project overall. Plus there is the benefit of it being free advertising.

Fell free to pop in with your thoughts and suggestions

remote control slitaz virtualbox ???

qubo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:29:23 +0100

how I can control slitaz virtualbox from a remote windows xp pc ? if there a client to control it or it can be controlled by a terminal ?

thanks in advance
Qubo

The Sakis3g Attempt [Working!]

Trixar_za — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:30:43 +0100

Hey guys, I'm just letting you know I'm going to attempt to get Sakis3g to run on Slitaz.

I'm attempting to do it in as few packages as humanly possible. If I succeed, I'll write a guide about it so other people can do it too, maybe we could even make it a drop in replacement for the other 3G 'detector' in hardware setup.

Anyway, hope to see you guys in a few off Slitaz Cooking :P

VirtualBox Guest Additions

fasterfox — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:26:04 +0100

Dear Slitaz gurus,

I like to have the instructions to install VirtualBox Guest Additions if it is possible on Slitaz 3.0, I know maybe it sounds too imperative, but it is so easy in Ubuntu (1 line command) but at the same time Slitaz it's so lite, fast and even I can in my small tablet, that is why I'm spending a lot of time on Slitaz.
Maybe the questions is: we should wait until VirtualBox supports Slitaz

Thanks for your help

Unable to mount SATA drive to LiveCd version of SliTaz

Stolgrove — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:00:11 +0100

Alright, I have stayed up over night learning LINUX/SliTaz. Right Now I am unable to mount the harddrives while running this OS from RAM. I can Fdisk -l and find the drives, with device ID SDA1 and SDB1. I am only concerned about SDA1 right now. I have tried to force mount GUI and non-GUI in SU mode.
I do not have a boot/menu.lst to edit.
Still reading other forums, but no luck.
Please throw your thoughts this way

x does not start on my Dell c400 (latest cooking)

Christophe — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:01:55 +0100

the content of the appropriate /var/*Xorg.0.log can be found here
http://dl.free.fr/hLXjuvC7W'); return false;">http://dl.free.fr/hLXjuvC7W

I have a C400 and have had problems in the past, seemingly because there are some known problems with the i830 graphic chip.
I found an article discussing known problems with it at

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html#xfree86

Can someone with a better knowledge than me have a look at that and give me some hint ?

Thanks

[with previous version, X would start but with 800x600 resolution, and i never could get anything more than that with slitaz, though i use 1024x768 with windows and other distros eg ubuntu -- i was hoping to be able to use the vesa mode 773 as described in the referred article, stable V3 was allowing to enter this but this cooking does not).
from what i understant, the chipset uses 1MB of ram by default and "sometthing" has to be done to allocated 12 MB of memory at startup so that the appropriate resolution can be reached.

How to add "man pages" to the distribution?

krusader23 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:47:07 +0200

Hi,
is there a way to add the "man pages" to SliTaz? Or some other form of documentation for the commandline commands?
I've looked in the available packages under: "man", "help" "doc" and it appears there is not such a thing as installing a documentation for all the packages I have.
Regards

Ugly fonts in MS Office

mol — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:44:39 +0200

Hi

I've managed ... at least !! ... to install office 2000 with wine.
But the fonts are ugly. Does anybody faces the same problem ?

If not, please say what office version you have installed and how you succeed to do it

thx

nVidia

searchfgold6789 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:59:57 +0100

I got the correct .run driver package for linux from the nVidia website, but it says I cannot be running an x session while running the installer for the drivers. How can I login without starting X?

3com PCMCIA adapter

Schniggeli — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:57:59 +0100

Hi folks,

I just downloaded slitaz 3.0 to install it on my old toshiba laptop using a 3com wired network adapter to connect to my router. The model number of the adapter is 3CCFE574BT. The network card is not detected, lspci does not mention anything like 3com Ethernet adapter. Does anybody know whether this card is supported or how I can use it?

MIME Type warning message

gdesilva — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:56:04 +0100

When I installed some packages in Cooking 04112010 the following warning message was given;

Warning in file "/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop": usage of MIME type "x-directory/gnome-default-handler" is discouraged ("x-directory" is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent)

Is there a fix for this?

cant install canon pixma 280

rastiazul — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:42:01 +0100

i downloaded the source from here:

http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP280&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux

make gives error:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wabi/cnijfilter-source-3.40-1/libs'

make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

i also tried to run install.sh gives error also , about unknown package system

State of Slitaz Dev

Silver — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:07:51 +0200

Is Slitaz still actively being worked on? I love this distro but it seems like it's not being developed. The dev team is still here right?

OpenOffice - tja, zum wiederholten Mal...

michaelkbischof — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:35:54 +0100

Hi,
ich hatte hier folgenden Link zum Problem OpenOffice auf Slitaz gefunden:
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/1887/solved-open-office-install

Der führt leider nicht weiter. Kann man Jemand kurz schreiben/anleiten wie das geht?

Danke im Voraus,

Michael

Acer Aspire One 521 Trackpad

stephent — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:10:55 +0100

It's so damn sensitive with Slitaz. I just booted this distro for the first time on my netbook and I can't really do anything because I can't get the mouse where I want it to be. It's hard even to hold it in one spot, and near impossible to get the mouse to stay where you want if you remove your finger as cautious as you can. It darts off in some direction and you can't really click on anything you want without half a minute of trying to focus the mouse where it should be.

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

xfe new version compiling problem...please help...

mrblack234 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:21:37 +0100

Hi All... please help with compiling xfe new version (1.32.2).

and I've installed all packages including libpng

and libpng-dev when I get the following errors:

checking whether FOX was compiled with Xft support... yes

checking for freetype-config... freetype-config

checking freetype/config/ftheader.h usability... yes

checking freetype/config/ftheader.h presence... yes

checking for freetype/config/ftheader.h... yes

checking for xft-config... no

checking for pkg-config... pkg-config

checking X11/Xft/Xft.h usability... yes

checking X11/Xft/Xft.h presence... yes

checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h... yes

checking X11/Xlib.h usability... yes

checking X11/Xlib.h presence... yes

checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes

checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes

checking png.h usability... no

checking png.h presence... no

checking for png.h... no

configure: error: "png.h not found"

Black@Apache2:~/Downloads/xfe/xfe-1.32.2$

but after having tried ". /configure" again, still got the same error

as above, please what i missing for this error....

Problems in creating a new live CD: missing icons and no network

fxas — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:38:37 +0100

Hello all,

I am trying to create a custom SliTaz live CD based on SliTaz stable 3.0 with the latest package upgrades. I found two problems:
1. in the custom live CD, icons are missing.
I tried the suggestions made by asimo (see http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/6404) but it works only partially. No icons are shown on the panel.

2. eth0 is not detected in the live CD. The output of ifconfig is just loopback.
I have tried to restart the network, but still not working.

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Anthony

big cpu/graphic problem with browsers (chrome and midori)

rastiazul — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:45:40 +0100

hi, i cant view this forum properly with midori and google chrome, also other sites and I frequently have to kill them because they hang taking all cpu. This doesnt happen with netsurf, I supose is a problem with flash plugin?
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8098/20110105144044800x600sc.png

how to install virtualbox-PUEL 4.0 in slitaz 3.0

qubo — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:15:09 +0100

how to install virtualbox-PUEL 4.0 in slitaz 3.0 in the terminal. I would like to know how I can install the virtualbox puel version latest in slitaz 3.0 i would be much apreciate with this help
thanks in advance

Qubo

what is the minimum ram required for slitaz to work fine with virtualbox ?

qubo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:34:38 +0100

I install slitaz as is a small linux distro. my objetive is to use a low consumming linux distro that use low ram and use more ram in the guest OS I installed virtualbox on slitaz

my hardware is
atom 1.6ghz with 2 gigas ram. using slitaz and virtualbox with only one OS guest.

the questions here if I have 2 gigas ram what would be the ram needed in slitaz to make the guest work fine with as much ram as I can

it is possible to have 1.7 gigas ram in the guest and .3 gigas ram in the host (slitaz)

"Failed to execute login command"

searchfgold6789 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:27:31 +0100

Hi,

I'm new to SliTaz, but not new to linux, and as far as lightwieght linux distributions go, this one is the best one I have seen so far. I like it alot :)

I'm just having one slight problem. I just installed the "cooking" release of SliTaz using a Live DVD to a laptop. I set the default username and password, but for some reason I cannot login using the username I selected. I type in the correct username and password and I get a dark blue screen with the message "Failed to execute login command". If I use the incorrect username or password, then I hear a beep. I can still login as the root user, but I really need the default user to be able to login.

Does anyone have any solutions or ideas? Should I try the stable release instead?

Thanks for the great release!

- searchfgold6789

tazpkg installation problem

jobi — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:35:13 +0100

Hi i am using Slitaz 3 ( aircrack-ng version) in USB
I am unable to install anything earlier i was getting ( by using tazpkg )
"cp: cannot stat 'fs.cpio.gz': No such file or directory" etc.. etc Error
after searching the forum i tried updating tazpkg
it updated successfully but it started to give new error some text .sh shell file not found in /usr/bin
i could not install gettext-base-0.17.tazpkg because tazpkg is no more working.
however i tried to extrat it unlzma it and un cpio it and manually copied the files to /usr/bin folder.
i crossed my finger n tried to run tazpkg to install something and a new error came /usr/bin/tazpkg: line 2931: envsubst: not found
/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 2931: envsubst: not found

:( :~( Then i lost all hope and am writing this..

Please help me