Hi @XavierJ --

Yes, there is an (simple) installer under 'System Tools', which will extract the FS to a full hard-disk. You might find the page on the docs site useful:
=> http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation

HIH.

Thank you seawolf.

I have already done the "by hand" installation of this guide and I have Slitaz on my flash card, but my file system is still loaded in RAM at boot time : when I add a file, it's discarded when I reboot.
Modifying the file system is not a problem of course. My problem is that Slitaz is very light, but what I am adding on the system is not, and I don't want all the files to be loaded in RAM if not necessary.

I'm still lost in this problem.

How can I know for sure if I'm running slitaz from ram ?
I had a look at /etc/fstab ans there is no line for the root file system, but I'm not sure if it's relevant.

Xavier,

* You have Live CD,USB -> in RAM

* You have , on HD or USB ,
------* Frugal install -> in RAM
------* Full install -> everything is wrote on device

For the Frugal/Live mode, the difference between the normal iso and the Loram one, is that the Loram doesn't decompress the /usr/lib in RAM . So it use less RAM but is less reactive

To know if you are in RAM or not, ... just check if your root is on a device or not ... easy.

I don't have that in my /etc/fstab, either so I don't think it matters.

If you've installed to the disk/card, you can see the file-system on the device through the file manager, and the line in the GRUB config. file has a "root=/dev/sda1" (or similar) appended, you are most definitely running on the disk/card. The installer will extract SliTaz to the disk/card and the boot-loader (GRUB) starts it from there.

The only thing I can think of is that you have both the installed HD/card in and the Live version available somehow, and booting the wrong one.

Thank you two a lot.

I'm telling grub to use /dev/sda1 as root so I guess it's ok.

But I tried to check it and I'm still confused : since the busybox mount has not the -l option I looked at /proc/mounts and I got the following about / :

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0

The first line doesn't help much, and there is no root device in /dev on my system. Maybe it's used during boot and then removed.

I am no expert here (I do not have a PC with a card reader allowing to boot from there) but it looks like you have a frugal install.

Boot from the CD, go to the menu and reinstall from the appropriate menu entry, if your know that your flash card can be addressed as a fixed disk. Don't do a frugal install.
I really believe the pb comes from your installation, to begin with, so go back to the root of the problem....