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Floppy flavor, half the size without firefox

Chap chose another linux instead of slitaz because slitaz was not friendly to floppy install- http://forum.slitaz.org/viewtopic.php?pid=12989#p12989 .

Ran chose tinylinux instead of slitaz because slitaz was too difficult to install- http://forum.slitaz.org/viewtopic.php?id=1140 .

Some people want to use whatever is in their closet without getting any new hardware and that can mean no cd but a stack of floppies..

Solution-

Make floppy flavor with instructions for installation on a few floppies-

-Only browser is "links" (first public slitaz was 15mb- http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive … 84208.html ).
-Working dialup.
-Text login as boot default (type startx for gui).

Thank you.

Last edited by slicel (2009-08-03 19:20:26)

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#2 2009-08-03 21:53:03

bellard
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Re: Floppy flavor, half the size without firefox

Hi,

You can install Slitaz using floppies with the following steps:

1- build floppies on a Windows box with Internet access

Download a kernel http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/bzImage

Download a initramfs and rename it to rootfs.gz
If the target box has 160Mb+ use http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/rootfs.gz
If the target box has 64Mb+ use http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/rootfs-loram.
If the target box has 48Mb+ use http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/rootfs-justx.
If the target box has 24Mb+ use http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/rootfs-base.g

If the target box is running Windows9x, download http://busybox.net/~vda/linld/LINLD.COM

If the target box is running Windows NT/2k/XP, download http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/grldr

Archive these files on floppies with your favorite utility (arj, winzip...)

2- extract floppies on target box

If the box is running Windows9x type:
C:\> linld image=bzimage initrd=rootfs.gz "cl=rw root=/dev/null autologin"

If the box is running Windows NT/2k/XP
- append boot.ini with c:\grldr="slitaz"
- create menu.lst with:
title Slitaz
kernel bzimage rw root=/dev/null autologin
initrd rootfs.gz
- reboot and choose slitaz boot entry

3- now you can use slitaz-installer...

-pascal

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#3 2009-08-04 01:42:47

slicel
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Re: Floppy flavor, half the size without firefox

Hello.

1- build floppies on a Windows box with Internet access

What if the box is not windows?

2- extract floppies on target box

If the box is running Windows9x type:

What if the box is not windows?

If the target box has 24Mb+ use http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/2.0/rootfs-base.g

Is it impossible to install on less than 24mb ram?

slitaz 3 35mb iso=25 floppies?
slitaz 0 15mb iso=11 floppies?

Thank you.

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