The Boot floppy is a special format.

Use Menu/System_Tools/Boot_floppy.

@gychang

what did you do to write the image? linux (dd) or windows (rawrite.exe)

I downloaded the floppy image here (near the bottom: http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/index.html#stable

I tried to copy the file floppy-grubdos (1.4MB) to newly formated 1.44HD floppy (brandnew). I get an error, using windows XP machine. The file is too large for the floppy.

gychang

Follow my last post in this thread.

Edit- Boot the slitaz live cd on another computer with cd and floppy (the windows xp machine?) and follow my last post.

RawWrite for Windows:

http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite

http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

as mojo said, you have to use rawrite in windows - normal copy does not work

if you have problems to unzip - here its not zipped: http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/floppyimages/rawrite.exe

slice!, thanks, I am writing this on the xp machine with liveCD, Under bootfloppy box, I see several tabs, do I use "expert" tab?. When I click on write on floppy button, nothing happens (with a new floppy in the drive)... Help!

Good question, I would guess you want the usb tab if you plan to boot from usb (the usb tab mentions plop, which is a versatile utility).

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

I wonder if the set tab creates the entire os on many floppies like the windows 95 os used to be, like I suggested on the old forum.

I did not see a clear explanation in the documentation.

Edit- I do not know if you need to install any packages for floppy drivers before you can use the boot-floppy box. Maybe someone else can say.

@gychang try this:

Open boot-floppy box do you see Device: /dev/fd0

No, your floppy drive is not recognized by slitaz use RawWrite for Windows from within WinXP.

Yes, from boot-floppy box
click "Manage floppy image" button
File: click the button with the folder and navigate to floppy-grub4dos
Device: /dev/fd0
click "Write image to floppy" button


The floppy-grub4dos boot disk will present a menu that has plop USB driver to activate the bootloader on your usb flash drive.

thanks I got the floppy-grub4dos boot disc working, but unsure which iso (loram) to use in the memory stick?, to install to USB stick, do I have to get CD (from loram iso) and then copy CD files to USB stick? thanks in advance.

gychang

use the lowram.iso

download unetbootin for windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin

use unetbootin to write the lowram.iso to the stick

Use tazusb.exe on WinXP to setup slitaz on the USB stick

From here:
ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/windows/

128MB or more ram try slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso
64MB or less ram try slitaz-3.0-loram.iso

From here:
ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/iso/3.0/flavors/

thanks kultex, mojo, will get home and try your suggestions. gychang

foppy is directing the boot to continue, I enter usb choice and the command is stuck at "Loading boot sector" and does not continue. I have setup memory stick to slitaz-3.0-loram.iso. help.

I am not sure if you are trying to use the usb as a cd or as a hd and I do not know which is better.

I think you could use the xp machine to boot the live cd and use gparted to make the usb like a small hd with partitions.

I do not know if the usb used like a hd would need its own boot sector but here is a link anyway-

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/grub_intro

slice!: I was trying to use the usb as a cd (I have no cd) so I made floppy to redirect the installation but after the floppy does its thing, usb memory card seems to get stuck (lights up briefly). I will try your idea of simulating the memory card as a hd.

thanks for all the help.

Please see if the updated page is helpful (http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/index.html#stable ; http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/).

@jozee perhaps somebody is able to adopt GeeXboX Win32 Installer for slitaz - it would be very helpful in situations like this - http://www.geexbox.org/en/downloads.html

@gychang
you seem to have a bastard notbook like my Portege R100, which is also booting from nothing -

fist possibility simple: I think justx should boot on your laptop and it needs 96M of RAM and 11 floppies: fd001.img to fd105.img (see Jozees link)

second possibility is a bit difficult:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/

here is a howto for Fedora - adopt it to Slitaz http://www.bala-krishna.com/how-to-use-grub-in-windows-environment/

I try a quick one:

To multi-boot PCs with just XP:
1. In XP, download Grub4Dos and install on any existing NTFS or Fat32 partition.
2. Add a line named "Linux" or "SliTaz" to the XP boot.ini file and point it to start Grub4Dos: something like "c:\grldr" depending on where you put grub4dos. Useful instructions here: http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/bootini.htm
3. Create a menu.lst file for grub4dos to boot Slitaz, depending on where you have saved them.
On your next boot you will get a menu with two choices, XP or Linux.