It will run less fast and take less ram because the system will be on your hdd and not in ram. In all case Slitaz is a fast system.

You can also put the rootfs.gz and the linux-slitaz kernel on your HDD and boot this as a live system with some boot configuration commands and a persistent home, but it's more hard to customize.

well, would there really be a point to add slitaz to HDD when main os is linux, i mean they are pretty much the same?.....

I don't understand the expression would there really be a point ;)

I think that the advantage of having Slitaz installed on HDD is that you can add more applications and use a full desktop with a fast system. I don't use pclinuxos but I know it have lights versions (as light as Slitaz?), so I let you compare and chose what are your needs.

what i mean is....

since i have linux already, isnt slitaz linux based. i know the web browsing is lightning fast. the only draw back i have from using it is the no flash support.

Yes, SliTaz is a Linux distribution, as anything with a GNU/Linux kernel and extra software (the definition of a distro) is. The advantage of SliTaz over other distros is speed, lightweightness and lovely people on the forums :)

It's a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. I have Fedora running alongside SliTaz and use F12 for the majority simply because there are bigger Fedora repos and I like KDE4. If I just want to look one thing up on the Internet, I'll boot SliTaz as I'll be there in seconds.

Moreover, it's arguably worth having a second distro installed in case something goes badly wrong and one doesn't have a LiveCD (erm... like SLitaz!) to hand.

i know the web browsing is insane fast, but most of the sites i say on are flash dependent :(

There's an easy way to install flash on Slitaz :

tazpkg get-install flash-plugin

It works for firefox but I don't know if netsurf support flash.

really? i thought i tried that, will try when i get home. :)

didnt work...:(

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unable to find plugin in mirrored package list

@josh
In precedents version of tazpkg, get-install flash-plugin did : download the get-flash-plugin script and execute it. The new version doesn't do that, so you must install get-flash-plugin and execute it by tipping get-flash-plugin in your term.

If it is correctly installed you can find the package flash-plugin listed with your installed packages and the file /usr/share/flash/libflashplayer.so in your system. Then flash must works in firefox.

ive tried to run the script... i just get errors

Hi, have you run it as *root* ?
If not, try it. If you did, please post error log.

its working now, sry. it was in my "idiots guide to flash" post. thanks for everyones help tho!