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trouble installing from USB pendrive
  • farcusfarcus October 2010
    Have an old IBM thinkpad about ten years old. Has no CD drive and cannot boot from USB.
    I have installed Slitaz 3.0 onto a usb pendrive using tazusb.exe

    Then used Plop to load the usb device and then could load Slitaz.

    I am wanting to install Slitaz onto my hard disc.
    However, when I click on the install icon a get the error message "unable to find rootfs.gz"

    As I understand it - this is being looked for on the install CD. As I am installing from a pendrive it can't find it.

    Can someone explain how I can get around this as I do not have a cdrom drive at all for this computer?
  • erniaernia October 2010
    you should have the rootfs.gz file in the boot folder in your pendrive.
    mount your pendrive under /media/cdrom or where the install program search for rootfs.gz and you should be able to install.
    i don't know what plop is but if you get the pc booting from a pendrive you could also try to run "isohybrid nameofyourisoimage.iso" " and the dd the resulting iso image to your pendrive, it should work without issues, i've made my installs from a isohybrided iso without problems
  • mojomojo October 2010
    Copy the iso onto the USB key
    See this: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation
    If you get into trouble because the compressed file-system is not found, please check that SliTaz is in the master CD/DVD device. If the problem persists you can use a downloaded ISO image and mount it on /media/cdrom where the installer expects to find it:
    root@slitaz:mount -o loop path.to.slitaz-3.0.iso /media/cdrom
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