wow, those instructions for installing ubuntu on google chrome on cr48 are so hard. Google seems to curb linux "freedom" by making your life doubly hard (special BIOS, no usb boot,no cdrom boot, hard way to partition ssd,  closed-source hardware drivers, forcing to  use chrome kernel as BIOS can reject other linux kernel not signed by google, etc etc etc).

 But I have a feeling installing slitaz, instead of ubuntu or fedora, on cr48 should be much simpler. Three  steps:

1) Partition your ssd (as described in your link above) [you have already done that].

2) You are right: Use installation by hand is the easiest. Instead of lzma/gzip; I will prefer ssh/scp. So, extract rootfs.gz in one of your slitaz computers. Then, ssh/scp the files from that machine (add dropbear ssh server to rcS.conf for starting ssh server). That's it.

3) slitaz kernel should work without any recompilation as slitaz does not require initrd. You have to sign the kernel.

EDIT: this machine has 64-bit BIOS that will require patches to Slitaz kernel as per the instructions above. 

BTW, congrats for getting selected for the pilot program.  If you are able to get slitaz on cr48, it will be great. Let us know how we can help.

Got it to boot to slitaz terminal.  Startx fails, gonna work on fixing that (found the solution in the forums here I think).  After that, I'lll see about getting networking going.  But I'm much closer now.

that's great. Actually, can you try the xvesa flavor too: http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/stable/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso  . Vesa driver in Xorg sucks so tazx fails sometimes. XVesa may work better on totally unknown graphic drivers. If you know what graphic driver it is, you can use tazx. also do "tazpkg upgrade" to get all the latest fixes.

perhaps we can help if you post the output of lspci

ok - I found it: https://gist.github.com/737860

so it is a Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller

so it is supported by the intel driver and the i915 driver  http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_I915.html

I have no idea, if the 3.0 intel driver supports pineview, but cooking does - it is good, when it just boots to terminal

log in as tux, get root - then

addgroup tux video
tazx
exit to tux - startx - it wants to install xorg again - just do it
and it should work

when you use Slitaz-3.0 just do one command more
after "tazx" run "tazhw detect-pci"

Hi danaff37

Nice to heard that there is a way to use the spider, but you really succeed to remove the octopus google ?

Did you test a frugall install of Slitaz ?

I got a user back on here.  Tried the directions given for tazx (addgroup, blah blah), but any time I run tazx, after selecting install xorg, the next screen only has the option to quit.  And trying startx just gets error .xsession not found.  installed xorg-xf86-video-intel taz package, but still nothing.  It does show pineview intel graphics controller under lspci as stated here before.  the tazhw detect-pci command shows snd_hda_intel (sound controller?), um10_gpio (I have no idea what this is), i2c_i801 (video card?), and ath9k(wireless card).  So any ideas guys?  I'm stumped.

sorry, that I did not see, that you have no wired Internet - so the best thing is to connect the machine to the internet
Your Atheros wifi card is supported by the ath9k driver - lets see if it is recogniced
"ifconfig" should thell you -
if it is not recogniced, try to load ath9k as root  with: "modprobe ath9k" -
restart the network with  "/etc/init.d/network.sh restart"


"iwlist ath0 scan" should give the possible networks

now follow the guid   http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:wifi-easy
do "nano /etc/etc/network.conf"  enter your configuration - restart the network one more time and you should be connected

now you can use the rest

if you dont get the machine to internet try this:

download the following tazpkgs and put them on a stick:

xorg-libXv
xorg-libXvMC
linux-agp
linux-drm
libdrm
mesa
mesa-dri
libdrm-intel
mesa-dri-intel
xorg-xf86-video-intel
you will find them in the database: http://pkgs.slitaz.org/  take care to use the correct one - cooking or stable

boot now Slitaz - put in the stick, get root, find out the name of your stick with "fdisk -l", mount the stick "mount /dev/sdxx /media/flash" - go to flash: "cd /media/flash" and install all packages with "tazpkg install xorg-libXv" and so on

and now run all the other commands

and take care if you use cooking, I hope you did not use that one from 4.11.2010, because this one is not working - take the core iso from http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/undigest/

alright, sorry for the long delay, had to go out of town for work, and had no time to play around with this.  Tried installing all the packages mentioned (although could not find a libdrm package as requested) and still  have no luck.  Anytime I run tazx then install xorg, I come up with no choices, only to quit.  tried the xvesa flavor as well, but had the same issue.  So still stuck, hoping somebody has anymore ideas.  Terminal works fine. On boot, it makes it all the way to scsi devices, and stops there till I press enter, if that gives anyone ideas as to where it might be failing to load or something...

did you try to connect to the internet? perhaps somebody has something like this?

http://cgi.ebay.at/USB-Ethernet-RJ45-Network-Lan-Adapter-for-XP-win-7-Mac-/220704642584?pt=UK_Computing_Laptop_Accessories_LaptopCables_Connectors&hash=item3363059618

its much easier, when you are in the net

I've tried getting on the net.  NO luck.  Don't have a usb to ethernet adapter, but did try using usb tether on my android phone, which works natively in ubuntu and the chrome os that came on the cr48, but didn't work for me on Slitaz.  I have my laptop up right here next to it though, and can download any packages needed, then transfer over through usb.  Right now I'm on the latest slitaz cooking listed at the undigest mirror you gave (dec 26 I think) and tried everything previoulsy mentioned, but still no luck.  There is some improvement though, as the the terminal now shows colors for commands like ls, and I can see a cursor (couldn't before on stable).  Xvesa and xorg give me the same results.  I tried looking at the xorg.conf on the chrome os, but it's all listed as default screen, default monitor, default everything with no real info for me to help.

I'm thinking it may be from having to use the chrome os kernel...  it's 2.6.32, if that helps, and I've modified the config per the instructions for loading ubuntu, but maybe I need to change something there.  I don't know how hard it would be to try and load the slitaz kernel, but this is a GPT type boot loader from what I've read, and the kernel has to be on a separate partition and modified with the efi64 (since it's a 64 bit bios) as mentioned in the ubuntu instructions, but I don't know how to go about doing either of those things.


if it helps, here's the config given to boot ubuntu that I have in there now, maybe something I can change here?

console=tty1 init=/sbin/init add_efi_memmap boot=local rootwait ro noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 loglevel=7 kern_guid=%U tpm_tis.force=1 tpm_tis.interrupts=0 root=/dev/sda7 noinitrd

GPT should not be a problem, but when you use the chrome os kernel, I think, its clear, that slitaz cannot start - I think, thats quite a miracle, that you boot until the console and you get something like coulors and can see a cursor.!!!
Reading the instructions and jozees post, it just pops to my brain, that chromium is a fork of slitaz ??? !!!
I just thought, that slitaz was already booting.. I just think, taht you have to really follow the instructions - you have to boot the slitaz kernel and you need a use a USB-to-ethernet adapter as mentioned in the post

it would be interesting to see the  /var/log/xorg.0.log - perhaps you are able to save it and post it here

there is no xorg log.  I'm assuming it's not loading any video drivers so xorg never even tries to run.  I'm at a loss.  I'll have some more time later to mess with it.  I'm thinking of trying to install it into a vm and then using dd to transfer to the cr48 (the way the instructions do ubuntu).  I may have to end up running ubuntu (probably try lubuntu) until I learn how to modify and build the slitaz kernel, then figure out how to install it onto the cr48.

I think, slitaz is the better alternative - I just repost Jozees sugestion:

"2) You are right: Use
installation by hand is the easiest. Instead of lzma/gzip; I will
prefer ssh/scp. So, extract rootfs.gz in one of your slitaz computers.
Then, ssh/scp the files from that machine (add dropbear ssh server to
rcS.conf for starting ssh server). That's it.

3) slitaz kernel
should work without any recompilation as slitaz does not require initrd.
You have to sign the kernel.

EDIT: this machine has 64-bit BIOS
that will require patches to Slitaz kernel as per the instructions
above.  "

I think, that will run without patches, because here pasted from the guide:

"First, although the Cr-48 CPU and BIOS is 64-bit, the kernel and rootfs
(as I understod from Chrom OS) are presently 32-bit".

yes, but if you look down towards the end of the instructions for ubuntu on the chromium blog, there's a section that talks about modifying the ubuntu kernel, and mentions that if you use a 32 bit kernel. you have to modify it with some EMI 64 thing from a git given to work on the bios.  Plus, I'm not sure how to transfer the kernel to the partition...  the kernel partition cannot be mounted, it always says to declare a type and I can't find one that works.  I suppose a dd might work, but I still have to figure out how to build the slitaz kernel with the modifications needed.  A little beyond me at the moment.

I have a CR-48 and will start working on this as well...