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SOLVED hdinstall from liveusb (was "is doc handobook manual installation wrong?")
  • erniaernia March 2010
    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?
  • mojomojo March 2010
    Mount the empty partition your installing on to /mnt/target

    Copy the vmlinuz to /mnt/target

    Copy rootfs.gz to /mnt/target

    The partition your installing on which is mounted to /mnt/target contains vmlinuz and rootfs.gz

    cd to /mnt/target

    You are in /mnt/target with 2 files rootfs.gz and vmlinuz

    Now you 
    tux@slitaz:/mnt/target$ lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id


    The rootfs is extracted out of rootfs.gz from /mnt/target so it extracts into /mnt/target

    There was no rootfs on the install partition which is mounted on /mnt/target prior to the previous step.

    You can't overwrite something that doesn't exist.




  • erniaernia March 2010
    I said "overwrite file in /" , not in /mnt/target.
    But the fault was mine, i did not use an iso's rootfs but the one of my liveusb created with tazusb, because i did not want to loose the work i've done in my liveusb.
    Thanks for your "kind" reply
  • nightflightnightflight June 2010
    Hi ernia,
    good job !!! I also never had the idear that the problem with cpio comes from the "wrong" rootfs.gz. I would mention this in the HDD Install Tutorial.
  • Speed3210Speed3210 January 2011
    is there someone who can translate this in german for me ? :D i need this tutorial :P
  • Trixar_zaTrixar_za January 2011
    Probably a terrible translation but... http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.slitaz.org%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D%2Fdiscussion%2F822%2Fsolved-hdinstall-from-liveusb-was-is-doc-handobook-manual-installation-wrong

    :-P
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