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How to upgrade to slitaz cooking

Killerkaninchen — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:26:38 +0100

Hi all

How do I upgrade my slitaz 3.0 to slitaz cooking? From cooking to 3.0 I used a command - something like tazpkg --set-release < version >. Is it still the same?

Thanks in Advance
Killerkaninchen

Again the resolution :-) question from a newbie

cyberbree_ — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:11:16 +0100

Hey Guys,

can anyone tell me how to get widescreen resolutions in slitaz such as 1920x1080 or 1366x768 ?
Step by step? And independently from the graphiccard or manufacturer of it? I mean, generic widescreen support? Easy an nearly automatic? Like slitaz does when it starts and chooses the resolution?
It is the only thing that drives me away from slitaz anytime i think "oh, lets give it a try again with the new cooking" :-)
Anyway, slitaz is great!
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cu

Manual ('By Hand') Installation [SOLVED]

hangfive — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:10:24 +0100

hi ..iam on a debianetch (oldthinkpad)

and i tried to install slitaz cookin by hand described in the documentation

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation

but it ended in:

h5n1:/home/h5# mkdir /mnt/target
h5n1:/home/h5# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/target
h5n1:/home/h5#
h5n1:/home/h5# mount -o loop /home/h5/slitaz-slitaz-3.0.iso slitaz-cooking.iso
h5n1:/home/h5# mount -o loop /home/h5/slitaz-cooking.iso /media/cdrom
h5n1:/home/h5# mkdir /mnt/target/boot
h5n1:/home/h5# cp -a /media/cdrom/boot/vmlinuz-* /mnt/target/boot
h5n1:/home/h5# cp /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz /mnt/target
h5n1:/home/h5# cd /mnt/target
h5n1:/mnt/target# ls
boot rootfs.gz

h5n1:/mnt/target# lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id
lzma: invalid option -- s
cpio: premature end of archive

can sb help me?

[Edit]:

the OLD-original lzma source knows the option "--s" ...

# so I got it from here http://www.htpc-forum.de/download/lzma.gz

# backup /usr/bin/lzma

#extract lmza.gz to /usr/bin/

bamm!everythin works fine ;-)

Slitaz - boot from CD, xfr to USB?

greengeek — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:43:36 +0100

Hi, forgive my ignorance... is it possible to boot Slitaz from CD then run programs from a USB stick?

I have a laptop with no hard drive and it is also has no "boot from USB" option.

If I can boot from CD, then transfer control to files or operating system on the USB stick I could then remove the boot CD and watch DVDs in the optical drive.

cheers

Trying to get Wireless PCMCIA card to work on dinasaur laptop install of SliTaz

Soteriologist — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:46:07 +0100

Here's my setup:
Compaq Armada 1700 laptop

I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC54GS ver2 working on WPA2 only network.

I'm not really sure where to start.

I've read about getting the windows driver from here:
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/support/WPC54GS/download
and then downloading and using ndiswrapper from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/stable/1.55/ndiswrapper-1.55.tar.gz/download

And I've downloaded both but am not sure what do do with them.

I'm not even sure if my PCMCIA adapters are installed and working. I mean: I pop in my wireless card and it lights up fine, but when I read about scanning the PCMCIA ports using "cardctl ident" It doesn't show anything as being listed.

So I guess where I need to start is this:
Can someone first help me with checking and making sure that my PCMCIA device is working and if not, help me get it working?

And then:
Can someone help me figuring out how to get my Linksys WPC54GS ver2 working on WPA2 only network?

Thank you to anyone and everyone for any assistance given.

SliTaz and Windows Networking

kbricked — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:52:51 +0200

Hi all.

SliTaz is a great mini OS with a huge punch; however I'm finding it difficult to do some basic things.

I've installed smb related packages, as well as pyNeighborhood and I can't seem to add or mount a Windows share via the command line or through the pyNeighborhood GUI.

Any ideas?

Video Resolution Problem

wagoneer89 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:16:02 +0100

Thanks to those who helped me get my ThinkPad 600 up and running. Awesome!

Now it's running I'm looking for a fix to both the audio and the video. Video first. I have a NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD 2.0MB video card. As I understand it, from reading the applicable posts to the discussions groups, I need to download and install the file "Linux-agp-2.6.30.6". I searched the net but was only able to find references to it, not the actual location of the file. Can any of you tell me where I can find the file and also the instructions for "installing" it?

I see, on my computer, under "PCI devices - System Information" I'm running the "VGA compatible controller Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD]"

"Display - System Information" tells me that I'm running in 800 x 600 resolution. The great big black border, and a couple of posts I've seen around the net say this computer will do 1024 x 768.

Questions:
Do I need to download and install the "Linux-agp-2.6.30.6" file? Logic tells me that the PCI description in SliTax Sys Info and the AGP designation of the file say "No".

Is there a place that I can simply tell the software to change the resolution?

Edit a configuration file?

Suggestions?

Thanks again... This OS is absolutely AWESOME!

Bill

Installation - newbie.

wagoneer89 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:34:52 +0100

Hi gang,

I can get around Ubuntu on this modern laptop but I've never spent any time under the hood in Linux, this is my initiation.

I'm intalling Slitaz (3.0) lomem (I believe) on an IBM Thinkpad 600 (not a 600e). Slitaz is WONDERFUL off of the Live CD, I'm very excited to try it. My goal is to make this machine a dedicated Internet radio, but I will take what I can get... if it just works as a stand alone word processor, that's OK too! This machine is 133 mhz and 97728 KB. 4 gig of HD storage. I have been trying to get it up and running with anything that is small enough to run it, and not from MS, for a couple of years! This is the closest I've gotten so far although I did get a load of Redhat 6 up until I destroyed the video... but that was an OS contemporaneous to the machine, I want something current.

I've got the HD partitioned via GParted to 3.?G and a 1.25G swap. The 3.?G is hda1 and is where, I expect, Slitaz should be loaded. I ran Spinrite on the disc before setting up the drive and it is essentially flawless, but Spinrite did tell me that "SmartDrive" had been turned off... and Spinrite claimed to have turned SmartDrive back on.

Everything seems to go as it should until:
"Starting udev daemon... [ Failed ] (I've read on this site that this is normal)
Then a few lines further down:
"Mounting filesystems in fstab...
/etc/init.d/rcS: line 255: can't create /var/log/dmesg.log: nonexistent directory
/etc/init.d/rcS: line 255: can't create /var/log/boot.log: nonesistent directory
script: can't open '/var/log/boot.log/: No such file or directory

SliTaz GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.30.6-slitaz tty1

(none) login:" (Quotes added)

I am then able to login as root.

I've tried the manual install in the documentation but my linux terminal skills are still VERY green. While the Live CD will load and this means that the CD somehow works... I can't see it when I use the command "dmesg" (I don't think). I do see:

"EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 3:1.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
root@(none):~# " (Quotes added)

As I have no output working I have copied this from the screen and tried to be accurate... I doubt there are any issues with the syntax, if you see syntax errors expect that they were produced by being copied rather than by flawed software.

I hope I am not imposing too heavily being so green, any direction would be appreciated...

Thank you.
Bill Minden, NV

where to download google chrome

talonf37 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:38:30 +0100

where can I download google chrome in .tar.gz format

UPDATE - slitaz on google cr48 notebook - Completed

danaff37 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:21:15 +0100

UPDATE: Someone finally found a regular legacy bios to use on this thing, so was able to boot from usb. everything works fine once you can use the slitaz kernel and not the chrome os kernel. The instructions were here, but the bios has been taken down since the time I used it due to security reasons, and a new one is expected soon. Buried in the comments is an alternate download to work if you dare, but I won't post it here.

First off, no you cannot boot to anything but a signed kernel from google on this thing. So no using usb or cdrom. You have to use a linux file system but the kernel (which is linux, 2.6) already present.

Okay, I've been trying to get slitaz to boot on my google notebook, following similar directions here, but it's been a pain in the rear. I gave up and went to ubuntu for now using those directions (although I've been using a usb stick instead of transferring a 5 gig image file over ssh), and still don't have much luck. But I would love to use Slitaz as a much lighter alternative to ubuntu.

The developer mode of the notebook has a basic shell on it, but only includes a few tools. Installing slitaz from image does not work;like I said, I think it's due to issues from large file integrity with all the moving. So I'm trying to find a way to do it in the shell. I have formatted the partition to ext3, but there are no lzma or cpio tools to use per the instructions to a manual install on this site. It does have tar and gzip, which I tried (although I knew it was in vein) to use to extract the rootfs.gz from the iso.

So, what I want to know, is there some other way to transfer the necessary root filesystem without using lzma or gzip? I can't extract to usb and then just cp -ar it all over, right? Keep in mind I don't have to worry about grub. I have gotten it to go into shell once. But had no xorg, and tazx came up blank. I know some of linux, but am really just a novice.

Please help! I like slitaz better than ubuntu, would love to use it on this thing.

edit: I am using stable version, by the way

Estonian keyboard layout in Slitaz?

nielander — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:45:46 +0100

Hello

I just got Slitas 3.0 aircrack version on my Acer Aspire One(model A110L), beacause to my understandment it's the best linux distro on my lightweight notebook.

Anyway...I can't find a estonian keyboard layout from setup anywhere...

I was wondering is it really missing from Slitaz, or is it just me that I can't find it...?

If it is missing, then is there a way to get it from somewhere...?

I'm kinda new to linux OS, so it would be great, if you could make help as simple as possible...

Thank you...

How to install an ATI Rage card (not Radeon!)?

Guido — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:26:24 +0100

I've been trying the last few days to get this ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (in a Dell Latitude C600) to work (vesa works of course but I want to use a better driver). After a lot of trial and error and google research now I know that this card is not supported by the ati driver (I think this should be stated in the wiki, only radeon cards are supported, not the rage family!). In other distros it is possible to find packages to install a driver under the name "r128". But there isn't any package related in the slitaz repositories. I tried converting a .deb package (had to move the r128_drv.so because it was installed in a different folder) but got the following error in the Xorg.0.log:

(II) LoadModule: "r128"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers//r128_drv.so
(II) Module r128: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 6.8.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(EE) module ABI major version (2) doesn't match the server's version (4)
(II) UnloadModule: "r128"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers//r128_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "r128" (module requirement mismatch, 0)

I tried with a newer one (6.8.1) but this time it says that it is compiled for 1.7.7 and ABI major version (7). So I see that there is a mismatch with Xorg core server being used (1.5.2) and the one the driver is looking for. I guess I need to compile the driver from source, which is here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-r128
But, being a noob in linux, how do I do that? Can someone create a package?

PD: glxinfo reports that direct rendering is working and glxgears gears gives me around 35 fps with the vesa driver.
PD: I'm using stable.

SOLVED (?) cooking 20100221 pcmanfm ntfs hal

ernia — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:52:47 +0100

I'm not able to mount a ntfs partition double clicking it in pcmanfm.
I can mount it in mountbox and with ntfs-3g but not in pcmanfm.
This was working in 2.0 and works for ext2 and vfat.
The error message i got is:

Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure
Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure
Directory doesn't exist!

Errors appears in a message box and i press ok between messages.
It seems something related to hal, i sure don't have the skills to debug it.
Any advice?

SIS 530 & Midori

hal343 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:28:55 +0100

I am running Slitaz on an old K6. The video card is a PCI bus SIS 530. Midori will not load images. I was wondering if the video card is the problem?

chrome doent run

drrt17 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:59:55 +0100

i installed chrome and it doesn't run

also i tryed to convert the .dev pack to .tazpkg and it doesnt even work

what can i do?

gnome-games

alexandrion — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:07:43 +0100

this seams like a great distro for my parents to learn linux on but they're REALLY into playing the gnome games

is there any way i can get them installed here?

Survey memory consumption in Slitaz

tamerwizard_06 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:32:50 +0100

hi! I'm noob here. Can anyone tell me how to survey memory consumption in Slitaz? Is there an equivalently "top" command in Slitaz? Thanks!

SSH-ing in Slitaz

tamerwizard_06 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:22:55 +0100

Hi! Can somebody help me? I can't seem to ssh locally: ssh -Y -o 127.0.0.1 . The error message was: No DISPLAY: This may not be what you want.

I just want to check ssh locally first before actually doing it to some other machines. Thanks!

Problem running/Problema Inicianto NTLDR?

drrt17 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:40:59 +0100

Sorry for my english

I installed Slitaz with the LiveCD, and before of that, i formated the windows partition

all the thing went on in the installation, but when i rebooted it and took out the cd, it didnt work

the system wants a NTLDR? and i dont even have an idea of that!

help pleae

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Spanish

Instale slitaz desde el LIVECD, formateando todo windows.

Despues de la instalacion, la cual fue bien hecha, reinicie y me pedia un archivo NTLDR

no se que hacer =/

manual installation onto HDD : improvement?

johnlumby — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:22:34 +0100

In following the Manual ('By Hand') Installation method described in the Handbook, It seemed to take a very long time or maybe for ever performing the lzma step to decompress the root filesystem.

I found that this alternative works better : any comments?

instead of the following three commands:

cp /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz /mnt/target
cd /mnt/target
lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id

do this:

cd /mnt/target
ln -s /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz rootfs.lzma
lzma d rootfs.lzma -so | cpio -id

xorg-xf86-input-plpevtouch

turbotom — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:09:02 +0100

I found the newsletter from google, and it is the only place i can find it on the internet. Is there any way to get this as a stand alone package?

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:newsletter:oldissues:15

Boot current Slitaz Cooking Core

zezinho — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:02:49 +0100

hi, I am using happily Slitaz 3.0 on a PXE/TFTP server to boot machines and then clone them with partimage. I have understood the flavours etc, but I'd like to use a more recent partimage.

As Cooking have latest partimage 0.6.9, I downloaded the cooking base iso, extracted bzImage and rootfs.gz to the PXE server, and it boots.... than it stops with

reset : unknown terminal type linux
Terminal type?

1. Is this a known problem? I am confused as the iso is from November 2010, rather old for Cooking?
2. Should I stop playing with cooking if it is not ready for production?

Trouble installing from live cd

lewy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:39:54 +0100

Hi,

I tried to install Slitaz 3.0 from a live cd to an old Thinkpad. keep on getting this message "Unable to find: rootfs.gz". Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Open Office Installation Seems Broken

lamdacore — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:43:10 +0100

Hi,

I recently installed Slitaz on one of my really old laptops. I need to run only a few things to use Slitaz as mainstream i.e. I need multimedia software (DONE), Utilities (DONE), Office (A small problem).

I installed Abiword and Gnumeric just fine. However, when it came to installing OpenOffice I had some problem with the get-OpenOffice script but that was overcome by one of the discussions here. Once, the script ran and finished downloading, it automatically started the installation process. Now, I was expecting it to put all the shortcuts and links in the Slitaz start menu in the Office section. This did not happen and instead, I have to navigate through OpenOffice files in /tmp folder to run the needed programs.

To me it seems that it installed fine but something is missing to make it install neatly like the other programs. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

Lamda

Slitaz 4.0 Xvesa

moulefrite — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 07:48:10 +0100

I need it , I want it :)

Beside this, I notive that sometimes for some evoluated Graphic cards, the best way for having X working , it's to boot from Xvesa Slitaz version and auto download the specific Xorg packages for the card.

chroot cross device

moulefrite — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:13:43 +0100

Hi,

I'm willing to chroot an environment on a usb. It's seems ok, but one I want to install a packqges on it (like firefox)

I've got errors !

firefox-3.5.7

Connecting to mirror.slitaz.org (94.23.60.116:80)

firefox-3.5.7.tazpkg 100% |*******************************| 5864k 00:00:00 ETA

/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 2642: can't create /dev/null: Permission denied

/usr/bin/tazpkg: .: line 2642: can't open /tmp/tazpkg-3101-27775/receipt

/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 2642: can't create /dev/null: Permission denied

/usr/bin/tazpkg: .: line 2642: can't open /tmp/tazpkg-3101-27775/receipt

root@slitaz:/# firefox

/bin/sh: firefox: not found

root@slitaz:/#

help

Installing from source--rather than cookin

slitazm — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:39:37 +0100

I am trying to install an application called octopussy. I am not cooking it. I am just installing it from source by ensuring

the pre-requisites are installed and by running he INSTALL.sh script. I am getting the below errors when the service is

attempting to start.

Name "AAT::Translation::I18N::en_us::Lexicon" used only once: possible typo at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/Locale/Maketext.pm

line 443.

Deep recursion on subroutine "AAT::XML::Read" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/AAT/Application.pm line 89.

Deep recursion on subroutine AAT::Syslog::Message" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/AAT/XML.pm

Deep recursion on subroutine "AAT::FS::File" at /usr/.....AAT/Syslog.pm

Deep recursion on subroutine "AAT::Application::File" at /usr/.....AAT/FS.pm

This application requires quite a few Perl modules installed via CPAN. It also requires syslog to be stopped and rsyslog to

be installed. I also installed rsyslog from source (and did not try to cook it first).

So a few questions:

1. Is it okay to install apps from source rather than try and cook the package?

2. Since both applications are daemons (octopussy and rsyslog), they seem to be tricky to install since your service daemon

startup structure is not straightforward or typical. Can anybody suggest some basic pointers on how to properly install a daemon

on slitaz?

3. Can anybody make sense of these recursion errors? I have ensured that all the perl modules are loaded. I sense that

the slitaz directory structure make have caused a few modules to not be installed properly or perhaps that the busybox

commands (which do not support all the feature sets of coreutils) may be responsible for not installing the modules

properly.

Thanks for any help!

[Solved] mplayer error

gdesilva — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:27:14 +0100

Hi, would anyone know how to fix the mplayer error 'too many video packets in the buffer'? I set the mplayer video settings to drop packets but still the error persists. I am running a P4 with 512MB RAM.

Thanks

SliTaz to the rescue!

monz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:30:18 +0100

I just had a wonderful experience with SliTaz this afternoon, and want to share it with all those here who love SliTaz as much as i do.

A friend of mine had a c.2001 Dell Latitude laptop running Windows XP which he used for work. About a month ago, he found that it would boot into Windows but then after 5 minutes he got the dreaded BSOD ("Blue Screen of Death", for those lucky computer users who aren't familiar with it). I was confident that i could use SliTaz to help him somehow, at least to recover his data, but hopefully to actually get the machine working again.

So i put the SliTaz 2.0 CD into the drive and powered on. Nothing but error messages. The BIOS did not see a hard-drive, and it also didn't see a CD player. The hard-drive thing turned out to be stupid human error: he actually had taken the drive out of the machine, so it really was not there. But he had it with him, screwed into another holder because he had tried to retrieve it on another machine with no success. And luckily i also had a floppy-disk with the 1-disk BG-TLB (Bob Giannone's Tiny Linux Bootdisk), and the machine did boot from that.

So with BG-TLB i was able to use fdisk -l to see the hard-drive parititions, but while BG-TLB can mount vfat filesystems, it lacks the ntfs tools, so i could not mount the hard-drive to examine it. But then surprise!, i was also able to mount the SliTaz CD, altho i could only see a few of the files on it.

At this point i was thinking that that was as far as i could go, BG-TLB is just too small to work on Windows XP partitions. But just to try it, i turned the machine off and took out the floppy, trying to boot SliTaz from the CD, and lo and behold, it worked!

So then he finally saw the data that he has been needing for so long, and we saved the most important bits of it onto a floppy disk. I also tried to install GRUB from the command-line, hoping that if the problem was due to a virus overwriting the Master Boot Record, GRUB would overwrite that and he might be able to boot into Windows again. But again, i got a message that the BIOS could not find a suitable block device.

So having gone this far, i finally twisted his arm into giving me permission to partition the hard-drive and install SliTaz, thinking that the slitaz-installer would put GRUB onto the MBR with no problem. And i was right. So now, he has his Windows machine back, and he also has a small (1 GB) Slitaz to play around with. He's been wanting to do that anyway, so this was really good.

How to use Slitaz installed on HDD without using the rootfs?

colben — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:27:25 +0100

Hello,
I installed slitaz to HDD following the manual and everything works fine - result is rw access to my ext3 partition on /dev/sda3, but when I type "mount" the output is as follows:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)

My question is if there is a possibility to not use this "rootfs" thing and have a usual mount to ext3 which would correspond with fstab entry like:
/dev/sda3 / defaults 0 2

I was trying to comment out rootfs mounts in /etc/init.d/rcS, but wasn't sucessful. Where gets the rootfs mounted? Is there any possibility to not mount it and do a normal mount from ext3?

And bonus question:
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback)

How the current mount (above) works, is there any ramdisk in use?

Thanks for help