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5rc2 - no flavors «base» or «justX»

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• Started 9 years ago by oui
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   oui
   

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   or both?

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   The (russian dolls) 5rc2 hold base, justx, gtkonly and core flavors in one iso.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   oui
   

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   thank you very much!

   but...
   how to use it in the praxis? I did unpack the iso and look in the dir /boot of the ISO. I find the needed files bzImage ipxe memtest rootfs1.gz ... rootfs4.gz and vmlinuz-3.2.53-slitaz.

   in the past it was so, I have to concatenate following files in this way:

   cat rootfs1.gz rootfs2.gz rootfs3.gz rootfs4.gz > rootfs.gz

   so I can start with grub using followin text:

   menuentry "SliTaz" {
   set root='(hd0,msdos7)'
   linux /Zslitaz/bzImage pdev1=sdc3 psubdir=Zslitaz
   initrd /Zslitaz/rootfs.gz
   }

   (the Z in Zslitaz make, I can move all the system before in my tree without to have to select the directories: the future file system after installation is from bin .. var before Zlitaz in the alphabet ;-) ...)

   So...

   As I will only start the more little doll, I did rename my actual

   mv /Zslitaz/rootfs.gz /Zslitaz/rootfsfull.gz

   and made rootfs1.gz to rootfs.gz:

   mv /Zslitaz/rootfs1.gz /Zslitaz/rootfs.gz

   and restart.

   And, what happened?

   kernel panic of course (::) !

   (Notice more easy is don't to rename both but to create au new grub entry:

   menuentry "SliTaz first doll" {
   set root='(hd0,msdos7)'
   linux /Zslitaz/bzImage pdev1=sdc3 psubdir=Zslitaz
   initrd /Zslitaz/rootfs1.gz
   }

   it produces the same kernel panic directly but would also start the little doll if this way would be correct!)

   kind rgds

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   az_ua
   

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   kernel panic

   This is known bug of RC2 kernel with single rootfs.
   Use bzImage from rolling iso.

   cat rootfs1.gz rootfs2.gz rootfs3.gz rootfs4.gz > rootfs.gz

   Only reverse order works correct. For justx:
   cat rootfs4.gz rootfs3.gz > rootfs.gz

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   oui
   

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   Thank you very much:

   following entry

   menuentry "SliTaz 5.0rc2" {
   set root='(hd0,msdos7)'
   linux /Zslitaz/bzImage pdev1=sdc3 psubdir=Zslitaz
   initrd /Zslitaz/rootfs4.gz
   }

   did work pretty.

   but I did see, that the dependencies, compared with SliTaz 4., are really heavy :-(( !

   if you make tazpkg upgrade you must install a lot of dependencies more and more!

   buzybox, etc.

   why?

   kind rgds

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   oui - depencies is only one point - I mean 5.0 is without hal, what counts much more....

   just as an example - i am using SliTaz on my Geode LX 800 servers - and I think, thats really the one of the weakest cpus still available - and cooking works much better on it....

   just to compae some benchmarks

   http://www.eembc.org/benchmark/index.php?suite=ALL&type=PRO&member_seq=63

   http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Geode+NX

   and 5.0 is much quicker than 4.0

   and SilTaz has no choice on the depencies - thats the programs, who need that more depencies - you can start with core and choose programs with less depencies - thats your choice....

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   oui
   

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   Hi Kultex

   I did only use both «bases» the one from 4 and the one from 5, tazpkg recharge upgrade

   4 will actualize 4 packages
   5 will actualize 13 packages (ok, it is a version under development). under them can you find busybox (that is not a matter of development ;-) ...)

   SliTaz 4 seems don't to have busybox at all in the base (it become required if you will install elinks, why I don't know as links2 doesn't require it on the same system).

   as SliTaz is accostumed to also use tool chains, why this big amount of evitable dependencies in simple packages?

   you see? make the experiment, it is fast done in frugal install, you will see, it is so and really curios!

   kind rgds

   Posted 9 years ago #

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