booting slitaz from DOS:


1. install linld.com to anywhere in %PATH%

http://busybox.net/~vda/linld/


2. create two textfiles in root of bootdrive:


/slitaz.bat

:: slitaz.bat
@echo off
linld.com image=\boot\bzimage initrd=\boot\rootfs.gz cl=@slitaz.cl

/slitaz.cl

rw
root=/dev/null
home=4039-E1EC
autologin
lang=en_US
kmap=us
acpi=off
apm=on
power_off=1

slitaz.cl contains the boot options, one per line. only the first 4 lines are important in this example.


3. boot DOS.

4. run slitaz.bat (or append contents to autoexec.bat).

5. enjoy slitaz.

Hello. Do you know how to install-

slitaz frugal on slitaz full install?
slitaz frugal on ext3 (without any regular os)?
multiple slitaz frugals on those?

I mentioned it on the old forum but do not recall receiving an answer.

Thank you.

slitaz frugal on slitaz full install?

i don't quite understand this. you want to convert an existing slitaz full install to frugal? why not just re-install slitaz and then re-copy (with permissions) the /home folder?

slitaz frugal on ext3 (without any regular os)?

yes, buy why frugal? go full install since there will be no other os as you mentioned. the LiveUSB installer was designed for this. ext3 cannot be read safely by any other os except linux. the reason i use frugal and fat32 is because i multiboot win, dos and different linuxes on the same drive.

it is still possible, if you want:
- install grub4dos under linux (so the partition can be read)
- use UUID for "home="

you can also use other bootmanagers but that is beyond the scope of this tutorial.

multiple slitaz frugals on those?

i can't. slax, puppy, tinycore, and xpud, can be organized into a single subfolder but slitaz and also dsl looks for /boot folder in the root of the partition.


in all cases, this tutorial is limited to my knowledge of linux, grub4dos 0.4.4, and slitaz-3.0-xvesa. the non-xvesa version of slitaz does not like my hardware and gives me "failed to execute login command" error.

i don't quite understand this.

The website has information for frugal slitaz on windows but not frugal slitaz on slitaz or other linux os.

I am looking for options to store on hd but boot into ram (booting into ram from hd instead of from cd or usb).

Thank you for the information.

Slicel

1. You can access to any hdd from a frugal boot .
2. A frugall install is nothing more than a grub aiming a rootfs.gz
So, if you have alreadz Slitaz installed on HD , you can easily add any rootfs.gz
in it's boot folder and add a Grub entry to boot on that rootfs.gz

3. (If you are interested), you can use
# tazpkg link OpenOffice3 /media/disk
to use your application from your installed Slitaz (on /media/disk) into your current slitaz session.

and create a new rootfs.gz with these links :)

moulefrite, thank you, I moved the discussion to http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/vanilla/discussion/1153/tazswitchboard .

frugal install anything from any OS: 3 basic steps.

1. install bootmanager
2. copy contents of bootable iso to disk
3. re-configure bootmanager to add the new OS.

i now use UUID for "home=". to determine UUID for a partition, run the command "blkid" on the console.

title Slitaz

find --set-root --ignore-floppies /boot/bzimage

kernel /boot/bzimage rw root=/dev/null home=4039-E1EC autologin lang=en_US kmap=us vga=789 screen=1024x768x24

initrd /boot/rootfs.gz