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dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Just a summary for future readers of this thread:If you want help and/or support you NEED to provide ALL the information right away and NOT bit by bit. It is essential that who ever tries to help knows exactly what is going on.

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
I did see your messages. ;-)Which media did you use to install and where did you get it?Is 'hda' something you saw during the installation, something you verified with fdisk or just where you think it should be?

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Hi, to start at the beginning, can you pls. describe how you install Slitaz and which version / flavour?Also, pls. provide the output of "fdisk -l"

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
Help with installing slitaz.
The 'installer' will mount the target partition to /mnt/target, then mount the cdrom or link /home/boot to /media/cdrom/bootand fail if no rootfs file is found in /media/cdrom/boot/I haven't played around with a USB-Stick yet, but it …

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
Help with installing slitaz.
The installer expects the kernel and the initrd file in the /boot dir of a mounted CDrom. To 'trick' the installer just create a 'fake' /boot dir in the place where a cdrom would be mounted an of you go. Therefore, on your USB-St…

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Valid point, but as wolfxwinds stated, (s)he 'managed' to fumble around with /dev/hda. Therefore I'll guess this is what Slitaz 'sees' and what we have to work with. Nevertheless the output of 'fdisk -l' should cla…

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Hooooooo, hold the horses!!!To go back to Win use the foolowing command sequence from within a terminal session of the LiveCD. su - root

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Sure about /dev/hda ??If you installed GRUB to /dev/hda2, you'll get exactly the symptoms you have right now!!Just boot from the LiveCD and open a terminal.Then enter the following sequence su - root

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
dual booting my dell latitude d600 (SOLVED)
Do you remember which information you provided during the installation process.?Especially if and where to install GRUB!!

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
There is something seriously wrong with the rcS boot sequence and network.sh [SOLVED]
@on4aaThis is the related code of netbox: Restart echo -n "Stopping interface : \$INTERFACE... " ifconfig \$INTERFACE down killall -q udhcpc; echo "done" /etc/i…

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
udev start fails after installing slitaz to hdd
Hi on4aa, as mojo mentioned in a different thread, there is a fix for the udev issue.Pls. seehttp://labs.slitaz.org/issues/462http://labs.slitaz.org/attachments/208/rcS.diffRgds.

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
.config file of the kernel shipped with Slitaz 3.0
Unfortunately, this discussion doesn't get me anywhere either. Trixar_za, do you know who did 'cook' the 3.0 kernel or how?

Comment by OldGuy March 2011 permalink
Problem installing
Memory requirementsrootfs.gz 144 MB rootfs-justx.gz 96 MB rootfs-loram.gz 80 MB rootfs-base.gz 48 MB rootfs-tiny.gz 24 MBAt least those are the info's in the PXE Menu

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
.config file of the kernel shipped with Slitaz 3.0
Maybe I' missing something.What I did so far is to setup a fresh Slitaz 3.0 core installation on a dedicated HDD.Thereafter I followed the Custom Kernel Guide. # tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain# tazpkg get-install ncurses-dev# tazpkg get-in…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
.config file of the kernel shipped with Slitaz 3.0
Ok, I guess I'm again chasing the wind. :-(If I have a look in wok-stable, it seems that those are patches and I would think there are all included in the current download of linux-source.Nevertheless, looking trough them I found that the modif…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
manual installation onto HDD : improvement?
You do not write to /mnt/cdrom/boot/, you read from itWhy shouldn't the system read from a ro media?If I read you r message right, you write directly onto the device (/dev/shm) ans NOT to the mountpoint (e.g. /mnt/target) of that device?As for …

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
Trouble installing from live cd
Slitaz is looking for the rootfs.gz file which is the initrd file used to boot the system.This file comes with your LiveCD. Therefore Slitaz will look for it in the /media/cdrom/boot directory. Unfortunatelly, if your LiveCD is not mounted, Slitaz w…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
manual installation onto HDD : improvement?
Why not cd /mnt/target lzma d /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id??

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
chroot cross device
Sorry, first you said you used the way described in the handbook, than you mentioned on the side that you modified tazpkg to 'targettowards stable' and now I'm wondering what you have done to get tazdev to create the chroot on a usb-(…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
Boot current Slitaz Cooking Core
If you download /boot and /pxe from a Slitaz mirror (e.g. ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz) into your tftpserver directory and hand over the pxe/pxelinux.0 as a boot file via DHCP, you'll have all Slitaz versions/flavors (as well as some oth…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
chroot cross device
I used to chroot quite often to devices which I didn't boot from (especially to fix GRUB issues) but I never experienced any trouble doing so.

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
chroot cross device
I'm not sure about how to change the chroot env. to anything different. I think you're right, it should be a parameter to tazdev, as tazdev creates the env. (tazdev gen-chroot)About the devices and links.You should be able to mount any dev…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
chroot cross device
I just went through the 3 steps tazpkg get-install slitaz-dev-tools tazdev gen-chroot tazdev chrootThereafter I installed firefox (tazpkg get-install firefox) within the chroot environment without any problems in regards to /dev/null. There ar…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
chroot cross device
@moulefriteCould you pls. give some more details on how you chroot ?

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
define shell profile for root
I had a quit look in what busybox would/could recognize:( strings /bin/busybox | grep -iE "profil|bash|login" )It seems that busybox only recognizes /etc/profile and .profile. :-(Therefore you shoudn't have any luck with ~/.bash_profi…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
how to boot Slitaz from the iso located on the hard disk using GRUB2?
4. Directories and Files Finaly we create the directory structure and gather the required files to enable a PXE-client to boot. 4.1 From the menu start a xterm session and become root. (enter 'su -') The standard passwort is 'root…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
how to boot Slitaz from the iso located on the hard disk using GRUB2?
2. Configure the TFTP-server 2.1 Start the Server Manager from the menu (de: System Tools/Manage servers) Select the 'Inetd' tab of the Server Manager and click on the edit button next to the 'Configuration' field. …

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
how to boot Slitaz from the iso located on the hard disk using GRUB2?
Ok.The operating systems of your other computers do not matter and will not be changed/modified as we will boot from a Slitaz LiveCD. :-)The local network should do, especially if no PXE/DHCP functionality is configured (as described in your other p…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
how to boot Slitaz from the iso located on the hard disk using GRUB2?
Hi florastephanie, I just finished my writeup on howto use Slitaz 3.0 as a PXE-server. As a special tread one could boot a PXE-client from this and furthermore install Slitas on this client.If you meet the following requirement, you couls serve as a…

Comment by OldGuy February 2011 permalink
[Bug] netbox doesn't update network.conf
Thx!!!BTW: "now fixed" does that mean a stable image, downloaded today, will already have this fix or is this something fixed in cooking?

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