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Creating Boot Disc - Error

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• Started 12 years ago by fork
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   fork
   

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   I'm trying to move my Slitaz installation to a 2nd machine. The new machine has 2 Win 7 OSs, but no Linux or GRUB. I created a partition for Slitaz and cloned it to the drive, but found Win Bootmgr wasn't going to work with it. Couldn't figure out an easy way to install GRUB alone, so I created another partition and installed Ubuntu. Now I had GRUB working, but Slitaz would only boot part way and stop with a blinking cursor.

   Next I tried to make an ISO of my original install, with Write-iso. It seemed to work at first, but concluded with an error that it couldn't mount the CDROM, in order to get the kernel. The CD was indeed mounted and I tried putting the Live CD in the drive, but still got the same error.

   I'd like to install the OS and have it on a bootable CD (though the CD is the priority). I wasn't sure whether I could use the Slitaz Installer to install the image from the bootable CD.

   Thank you,

   Darin

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Linux/slitaz and grub must be installed to linux filesystems(ext2.3.4)
   tazlito writeiso gzip :
   Verify Slitaz livecd is mounted to /media/cdrom
   ls -la /media/cdrom
   total 13
   drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Mar 3 17:37 .
   drwxr-x--- 11 root root 400 Mar 11 11:08 ..
   drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Mar 3 17:37 boot
   -rw-r--r-- 1 tux 1000 2633 Mar 3 17:31 index.html
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3189 Mar 3 17:37 md5sum
   -rw-r--r-- 1 tux 1000 878 Mar 3 17:31 README
   -rw-r--r-- 1 tux 1000 1217 Mar 3 17:31 style.css

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Thank you Mojo, I'm using file system Ext 3. If I can get the boot disc working, that might be all I need. This is for a music server, so the prospect of running the OS in memory is intriguing.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Still having problems with mounting the CDROM. I spent the weekend experimenting with changing folder permissions and a few other things, but no luck. I can see the device in Mountbox, but no detailed info. I tried this command in the terminal:

   mount -t iso9660 -o ro /media/cdrom /cdrom

   I got the error message, failed: Block device required

   Any suggestions are appreciated.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   michaelbischof
   

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   @fork
   For me it looks wrong. It should be like
   #mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
   or
   #mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
   - as you mount a device to a directory. Your line tries to mount a directory to another directory, which is not possible.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   That didn't work for me. Mountbox is using the path /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom. The dev folder had a text file called cdrom. it was corrupted and preventing me from creating a directory called cdrom, so I deleted it. However, I'm not able to mount the device. The line below gives the same error, failed: Block device required.

   mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

   Posted 12 years ago #

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