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how to change colors?

arobot2 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:12 +0100

how i can change all slitaz colors? menus and so on?

CUPS Shows a Blank Page

wmichaelb — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:16:29 +0100

Hi, I have been unable to get CUPS running, even after following the directions in the Guide very carefully. I've added cupsd to the initial boot routine, and when as root I click on Slitaz menu/System Tools/Manage Printing, the familiar CUPS menu opens up. I click on Administration, and then Add Printer, and I'm asked for a username and password.

If I type in the password that I installed with CUPS, it will not recognize it. If I type in the password for root, it leads me to a completely blank screen. Have I bleeped up the password, or the permission, or ??? Any suggestions are more than welcome, and thanks in advance.

Dockbar

liderpeximo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:41:03 +0100

Hi to all, i'm new, and i'm testing slitaz 3.0; is really an interesting project; if i want to install any dockbar (awn or docky), how can i do?
Escuse for my english, good luck!!!

Why can't I find dkms after tazpkg says it installed it?

slicel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:40:02 +0200

Why can't I find dkms after tazpkg says it installed it?

Thank you.

Is slitaz naked on the internet or not (firewall)?

slicel — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:57:09 +0200

One of my first questions in 2008 was if slitaz had a firewall.

I was told yes, slitaz autostarts a firewall and iptables is only to customize the configuration.

Recently I see posts saying that slitaz is naked on the internet unless you manually create a firewall.

Which is it?

This seems to be an important point and it would help if the documentation was clear and definitive on the point.

Thank you.

LiveUSB login problem

talsi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:17:34 +0100

Hi,

First of all sorry for newbie question, but I am new to the linux.

I was hoping to make system for back-up and recovery with SliTaz (30mb for complete system is sooo cool) from my old pendrive, with the ability to save my setting. So, I have burned ISO image, booted it and with Tazusb I have make USB bootable drive - as described in documentation. But, after booting, error message “Failed to execute login command” pops up and it takes me to login screen. Now, I can not log-in as user “tux”, I can log-in as root, but then the desktop is back, with no icons or wallpaper, and my setting is not saved :-(

So I thought I create new user, but when I try to log in, there is the same error as above.

Anyone knows how to make it work? I have tried both stable and cooking versions, but with no success.

Also, every time I log out, the screen is switching between 800x600 and my monitor’s native resolution...... can’t figure why.

How to download google chrome

talonf37 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:20:37 +0100

how can I download Google chrome. I didn't have enough space to run Firefox with flash on my computer so I put them

both on my jump drive and ran the files off of it. It work just fine I wanted to do the same with Google chrome but I don't

know how I cant find a Google chrome file in .tars.gz format . please help.

Absolute depends list

slicel — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:35:57 +0100

Many slitaz problems occur from missing depends.

Missing depends seem to occur from insufficient testing of all combinations on flavors.

If each package had an absolute depends list starting from a hypothetical nothing (or at least from the smallest micro slitaz), it should be easy to generate a relative depends list by dynamically crossing out packages already on any selected flavor iso or custom installation.

I think tazpkg already does something like this but starting from a flawed relative depends list based on human error.

The website's packages page could require selection of a specific flavor iso to dynamically generate an accurate relative depends list by comparing two knowns according to the latest, updated information.

xmessage

granda — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:05:27 +0100

Hello, i'm trying to run winetricks but it ask for xmessage.
Where i can find that?
Can i use gxmessage? How?

Thx..

How to make my printer available for gui applications?

Totoetsasoeur — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:40:04 +0100

Hi,
After a long, but successfull, installation of my printer to parallel port, I am faced to the following:

a) printing a text with something like:


# lpr -P brother_hl720 toto.txt

works like a charm. :)

b) but when I'd like to print something from "epdfview", "firefox", "gnumeric" or from whatever GUI application, the only printer listed is: print to a file. My printer brother_hl720 is not in the list.

Any idea on what I am missing to make my printer available to GUI application?
Thank you.
Stephane

usb wireless adapter

vegarl — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:16:22 +0100

Hey Guys,

I have a new challenge, I got slitaz working great on a old desktop computer, however I can't get my old wireless adapter to work with it. It is a linksys wusb46g v1 (I think it's v1)

When I go into the tazhw box, it shows up as p54usb (Prism54 USB wireless driver) but it's not working? any ideas what could be wrong?

[solved] SD-card not recognized

lois — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:25:27 +0200

Hi,

I have a problem getting my card reader to work on a foxconn nt-330i.

I tried the steps listed in this thread:
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/690/solved-sd-card-mmc-not-recognized
(I also tried to modprobe all modules provided by linux-mmc, but no success)

Slitaz seems to recognize the hardware ( a Genesys GL826-chip based onboard card-reader, fully compliant to usb 2.0 ), but does nothing when I insert a sd-card ( tried 3 different ones ):

lsusb:


Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1043:8012 iCreate Technologies Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1241:1503 Belkin Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 13fd:2040 Initio Corporation 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0716 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ58/M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

dmesg:


SCSI subsystem initialized
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9732 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

When I boot ubuntu10.04-live, kernel 2.6.32 on the foxconn nt-330i the sd-card is recognized as mass storage. So I tried to compile a new slitaz kernel with the ubuntu kernel config. but no success as well.

dmesg on ubuntu:


[    5.556629] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   10.560484] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   10.563928] scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9732 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   10.567042] sd 2:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[   10.589573] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  327.601315] EXT3 FS on sdd2, internal journal
[  482.972978] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] 8024064 512-byte logical blocks: (4.10 GB/3.82 GiB)
[  482.974964] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  482.977973] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  482.977983]  sdd: sdd1 sdd2
[  483.451862] EXT3 FS on sdd2, internal journal
[  475.972896] Modules linked in: nls_iso8859_1 vfat fat binfmt_misc ppdev lp parport snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event arc4 snd_seq iptable_filter ecb snd_timer ip_tables snd_seq_device x_tables ath9k snd mac80211 led_class psmouse ath shpchp atl1c serio_raw soundcore cfg80211 i2c_nforce2 snd_page_alloc dm_crypt squashfs aufs nls_cp437 isofs usbhid dm_raid45 xor usb_storage

Could this be a kernel issue anyhow or has anyone an idea why slitaz doesn't recognize the sd-cards. Does Slitaz somehow handle usb-storage in another way ubuntu does?

Any help would be very appreciated!

Arduino compile errors

Proxx — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:56:22 +0100

Hi all.

i have a thinclient that i will use to controll a arduino board. so i figured slitaz would be the best choice.
the thinclient i have had a flashdrive from 128MB so i cannot experiment much on that. and are forced to use the slitaz-base flavour

ok now to the problem

ik have installed slitaz in virtualbox. with a 6gb harddisk and ar trying to create a package from arduino for slitaz
when i am trying to compile the ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.19.1.tar.gz i am getting an insanity problem :P

"configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check"

root@slitaz:/home/marco/binutils-2.19.1# cpp -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.1/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-objc-gc --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-threads=posix --with-tune=i486 i486-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC)
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-E' '-v' '-mtune=i486'
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/cc1 -E -quiet -v - -mtune=i486
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../i486-pc-linux-gnu/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.1/include-fixed
/usr/include
End of search list.

can somebody help mee with this.

Partitioning the hard drive

Spyro543 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:03:19 +0100

I want to create a partition for SliTaz on my computer, I really like it. Better than Windows. But I have a problem: GParted won't let me create more than 4 partitions on my computer, and there are already 4. I have 2 hard drives built in, that takes up 2. Then there are 2 more partitions: RECOVERY and SYSTEM. Uh, what can I do?

There are 2 drives, C: and D: (sda3 and sda4). C: contains Windows, while D: contains all of my videos, music, and programming projects but it also contains some system software so I'm wary about combining the sda3 and sda4 partitions. What can I do without Destroying Windows or losing some system software and projects?

Which would be better?

Trixar_za — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:16:22 +0100

I want to create a Sakis3G package, but I have 2 ways of doing it in mind.

The first is to create a single package that works both for stable and cooking with all the required packages inside it (including linux-dialup 2.6.30, 2.6.34 and 2.6.36). The advantage of this would be that you only needed 1 package you needed to install to get Sakis3G and all it's required packages. The downside is that it might break compatiblity with other other packages in the repository. This will also be harder to do because each package will require certain steps that it's installer must do.

The second is to create 3 different packages that rather require the packages available in the repository, while including the packages and files that does not come with SliTaz or that version. The advantage to this would be that it will keep compatibility with that repository, while providing the 'extras' that the user will need to get Sakis3G to run well. The Disadvantage is that the user will be required to download ALL the other packages by hand. They will also be split into an stable, cooking and latest cooking versions.

I now leave the choice with you guys. I'm willing to package Sakis3G so it will work without weird hacks or much effort on the user's side by using a proper sakis3g.conf to set all the options like using the iterm by default and having the package installer run all the 'by hand' hacks automatically. In the end, using Sakis3G will be simpler and smoother that my previous explaination.

IS there supposed to be a GUI or something?

Spyro543 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:08:20 +0100

When I run SliTaz from a CD, I see the "Boot baby... boot!" and then I press Enter. After it boots, it asks me what country I'm from and then I select it. Now it asks me for a username and password in a DOS-like screen. I have no idea what to type in so I type in root for each. Now it says "Welcome to your box." in another DOS-like screen. Now there's a command prompt and I type in startx. Now a huge long string of random characters appear and it says it can't run the program or something like that.

I have 2 questions:

Should I be encountering a GUI about now?

Should I re-download the ISO?

If someone could help me with this that would be great.

Great news, linux breakthrough, how to get slitaz to run winmodems/linmodems?

slicel — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:23:45 +0100

Great news, success story, linux breakthrough-

The latest puppy wary auto-detects the agere 11c11040 hda internal winmodem/linmodem perfectly, needing only to enter conf settings that are specific to the internet provider. After seeing other people's recent success stories, I tried it on my computer and it works. I connected a minute after booting the live cd.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.1.1/wary-511-readme.htm

Now that the linmodem and puppy people did the major work, the solution to fix slitaz is sitting there.

What puppy information do we need to improve slitaz the same way?

This thread topic is only for technical linux information to improve slitaz.

Thank you

Puppy works with winmodems, can slitaz?

slicel — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:25:38 +0100

Old background- http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/6330/

The latest puppy wary auto-detects the agere 11c11040 hda winmodem perfectly, needing only to enter conf settings that are specific to the internet provider. After seeing other people's recent success stories, I tried it on my computer and it works. I connected a minute after booting the live cd.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/wary-5.1/wary-510-readme.htm
edit- updated version- http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.1.1/wary-511-readme.htm

Can slitaz do the same?

Winmodems are extremely common. A slitaz market niche is old computers and winmodems are found on several generations of computers. There is no reason to tell people to buy a $60 external modem when linux can run internal winmodems.

Thank you

Problem installing

the1knight — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:42:55 +0100

Hi, I'm having a problem getting any linux distro to install. In fact I'm getting board of trying. As a last ditch resort I decided to sign up here and ask. Here is the problem I am having with SliTaz. System is a Voyager 5000, old thing with a celeron 400Mhz and 168 ram on a 5 gig hd. Pop cd in and let it boot, Loading /boot/bzImage = 1 line of dots.

Loading /boot/rootfs.gz............................................................................

............................................................................................................. line after line of these, the cd rom is spinning and it's just going on and on. It's been like this for 20 minutes now. PLEASE, PLEASE be gentle with me. I'm not really a linux vet or anything. I use Ubuntu on the pc I'm on now, I can usually install that for candy, but forget Ubuntu on the voyager as it's just not capable. I just wanted something small and light and SliTaz is the third attempt at getting something running. Tried Lubuntu, Damn Small Linux and now this. The latter two just seem to get so far and then they stop.

Can anyone please help. Is it me??? I'll check back tomorrow as I'm very tired now so I hope someone can help me. No, I pray!!!

New user feedback

richman — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:27:38 +0100

My thanks to the creators and developers of SliTaz

I've been using SliTaz Linux for about a month and I am impressed.

I'm not a tech person by any means but, have been able to install and use this OS.

I have other computers in my home but work almost exclusively on this old laptop I rescued.

I have yet to post questions because a forum search has answered all that I have had so far.

My laptop was designed to run Windows 95 so it is around15 years old. (PII 233 with 256 mb ram)

I am unable to contribute technical guidance do to my current lack of knowledge.

That being said I would like to contribute by promoting this OS with this post.

I would also encourage others to give their positive feedback via this thread.

Thanx

Rich

slim loads... but graphics are all screwey.

Digit — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:00:56 +0100

i've been meddling with a lot... so this may get messy.

i've gone and installed scrotwm converted from a .deb, but must have done something in one of the following i presume:

/etc/slim.conf
/etc/scrotwm.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/usr/share/slim/themes/*the_theme_i_copied_from_old_install*
~/.xinitrc
~/.xsession
another .xinitrc or .xsession somewhere else.

so rather than re-trawling through a dozen configs trying to spot my mistake...

i'd rather set it up right from scratch again... and for that, i'd like a little "knee-bone's connected to the..." song, to help me understand the proper flow of things.

.xsession points to .xinitrc... slim starts session from .xinitrc... startx does... tazx comes into the story somewhere too...

i didnt have much success finding an overview of the sequence of X startup in a google search, especially when including "slitaz" in the search.

... it's come to that point where i'm bleary eye'd n too tired to follow the clues n test stuff out properly (or safely without further borks)....
...
*posts before falling asleep*)

How to install SliTaz on HDD

bushy — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:35:23 +0100

I have an old box, SliTaz works well on a live CD. I would like it to boot from the hard drive but don't know how to make that happen. Any help is appreciated.

Network printing issue (smb / windows share)

xfleblon — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:28:44 +0100

Hello,

Is someone has succeed (Slitaz stable 3.0) to configure a printer (HP) shared by Windows XP, with URI like the following ?
smb://WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a
My printer is correctly shared, and i can print over network with Puppy Linux, but it fails with Slitaz ;-(
My printer server (windows XP) is reachable from slitaz (ping OK)

Here are the steps :
- Install package (smbclient, hplip and all dependencies)
- > ln -sf /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (it's not an intuitive step, but found in other forums)
- Configure printer with Cups web Interface.
- Choose "Windows share", HP driver (my PhotosmartB109a is well known in the list provided by HPLIP)

I tried URI with many syntaxes. For example :
smb://WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a
smb://WORKGROUP/hostname/PhotoSmartB109a (with hostname declared in /etc/hosts)
smb://winuser:winpasswd@WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a
smb://slitazuser:slitazpasswd@WORKGROUP/192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a
smb://192.168.1.10/PhotoSmartB109a
and many other combination.

But each time, printing "test page" or "real document" fails : Printing error

I don't know if it related, but when I try to configure it manually with smbclient ... i get the following loop error :
> init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to IS0-8859-15 not supported
> init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE to ASCII
> init_iconv: Conversion from UTF8 to IS0-8859-15 not supported
> init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from ASCII to ASCII
> ......
The "init_iconv" issue seems to be known, but I don't understand in other forums the way to fix it ...

Thanks for any idea
I think, it's the last step to allow me to switch to Slitaz (I currently use Puppy Linux)

Printer setup problems

johnrocking — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:13:25 +0100

I am trying to setup my Epson C44ux printer via usb lead on Slitaz 3.0 stable but just can't do it. I am very new to Linux but have previously used cups on the same laptop using Puppy linux and it was no problem at all and set up easily. However I just cant set it up in Slitaz, even having a job to get into the setup window as my root password seems hit and miss. I have looked at the guide in the Slitaz documentation but get lost. Can anyone point me to an 'idiots guide' to Slitaz printer setup or spell it out for me please.

Many thanks in anticipation

custom keyboard layout

johhnyS — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:58:01 +0100

So, im using the latest slitaz-cooking.

How do i create a custom keyboard layout? Specifically, i'm aiming for a Czech QWERTY, which is not present in slitaz. A cz-lat2 (basically a czech QWERTZ) is, however, present.

Been thinking of modifying the /usr/share/kmap/cz-lat.kmap file (all i need to do is to interchange the Y and Z letters), but i can't figure out the internal languge of that format.

Any advices?

Where does the information in amixer come from?

slicel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:35:05 +0200

Where does the information in amixer come from?

Thank you.

/etc/init.d/local.sh

qleclair — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:33:35 +0100

Bonjour,

Le script /etc/init.d/local.sh est-il exécute à l'ouverture de session ou au démarrage de slitaz? Si c'est le 2ème cas, quel script faut-il implémenter pour exécuter des commandes à l'ouverture de session?

Merci de votre aide

how to boot Slitaz from the iso located on the hard disk using GRUB2?

florastephanie — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:06:25 +0100

Hello,

This thread is a follow-up of my other thread,

summary:

- I have LUBUNTU on my laptop, and i want to install SLITAZ next to it OR instead of it.

- my CD reader can not read cds on boot anymore, but it erroneously works now and then

and is even able to read cds within my Lubuntu.

- my floppy drive is something of the past

- my laptop can read usbs, but only within the operating system that calls for it

(there is no USB bios entry on boot)

- It has a working LAN port, but I have been unsuccessful in setting up a PXE server (which needs, as it seems, at least a functional-on-boot floppy-drive, cd-reader, or usb)

So I figured to make slitaz boot from iso within the hardisk through a custom menuentry in GRUB2 that came along with LUbuntu.

And collected little pieces of code from here and there on Internet.

I could be on the right track now, but I'm not a programmer

I placed slitaz-3.0.iso in this Lubuntu directory: /boot/slitaz

and here is my edit of /etc/grub.d/40_custom of my LUbuntu

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

#!/bin/sh

exec tail -n +3 $0

# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the

# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change

# the 'exec tail' line above.

menuentry "slitaz-3.0" {

recordfail

insmod part_msdos

insmod ext2

set root='(hd0,msdos1)'

echo 'Loading slitaz-3.0...'

loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)/boot/slitaz/slitaz-3.0.iso

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 33dcaca6-662f-4de2-9c83-733298bcb484

linux (loop)/boot/bzImage iso_filename=/boot/slitaz/slitaz-3.0.iso ramdisk_size=100000 rw

root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal autologin

echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'

initrd (loop)/boot/rootfs3.gz

}

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

and here's what it gives me when I load it from the grub list:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Decompressing Linux.......

....................

.....................

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,

fast windows scrolling one after another, the usual slitaz load i suppose

until it reaches this screen: (Note that I used trailing dots to save time copying word by word from the

laptop screen)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Using IPI No-shortcut mode

input : AT Translated Set2 keyboard as /devices/................/input1

input : PS/2 Mouse as /devices/................../input2

input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/input3

List of all partitions:

0300 19535040 hda driver: ide-gd

0301 18672640 hda1

0302 1 hda2

0305 860160 hda5

1600 4194302 hdc driver: ide-cdrom

No filesystem could mount root, tried ext3 ext2 vfat iso9660 fuseblk xfs

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

Pid:1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30.6-slitaz #1

Call Trace:

[] ? printk+0xf/0x11

[] panic+0x39/0xd6

[] mount_block_root+0x1eb/0x1ff

[<...........>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15

[<...........>] mount_root+0x4c/0x54

[<...........>] prepare_namespace+0x140/0x167

[<...........>] kernel_init+0x148/0x157

[<...........>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x157

[<...........>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

a thought just crossed my mind now is that maybe the slitaz-3.0.iso doesn't follow the iso9660 since the

latter could not load the former?

"No filesystem could mount root, tried ext3 ext2 vfat iso9660 fuseblk xfs"

but most probably, i think it could be solved with a little tweeking of the menuentry settings

Thanks in advance for your help

Kindest Regards

Stephanie

delete

elset — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:22:05 +0100

shutdown/boot trouble

OldGuy — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:58:10 +0100

Hi, after using the LiveCD as well as a PXE boot version of Slitaz 3.0 I went ahead and installed Slitaz 3.0 on a partition of my notebook as well as in a vm of VirtualBox.

The first thing I noticed was the

Starting udev daemon.... [ Failed ]

message during the boot process, which seems not to be there if the rootfs of any flavor iss used as an initrd file.

I could fix that one by moving the section which starts udevd in /etc/init.d/rcS behind the sections which checks, remounts the fs read-write and mounts all filesystems in /etc/fstab.
(ticket opened and patch send to the labs)
I'm also still wondering why udevd has to be started at this point as there are already multiple instances of udevd running at this time. 8-/

Nevertheless, while the installation within the VM seems to operate normal, the installation on the HDD (and only on the HDD) has a problem during shutdown.
During the shutdown procedure, I'll get the following messages on the screen:

Killing all processes...
Remounting rootfs read only...udev: starting version 150
mount: mounting /dev/root on / failed: Device or resource busy
[ Failed ]
Unmounting all filesystems...
umount: can't remount /dev/root read-only
umount: can't remount rootfs read-only

In the end the system will shutdown or reboot, but complains during the next start about a 'not cleanly unmounted filesystem.

Checking filesystems on : /dxev/hda2
Slitaz was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Slitaz: ***** REBOOT LINUX *****
Slitaz: 6832/98496 files (0,1% non-contiguous), 45893,393216 blocks
Remounting rootfs read/write

Occasional, this will also lead to a corrupt file system up to the point where I need to reinstall the whole system.

Any ideas??