SliTaz frugal installation with save changes every shutdown

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Started 1 year ago by HMA
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HMA

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Hi Volks.

i discovered SliTaz for my Acer Aspire One on the quest of a very fast booting and also powerfully Operating System. And ... well ... i am impressed from SliTaz. Small, fast an still full-value!!!

At time, i have installed SliTaz on a small ext3 Partition. But i prefere to run it from a frugal installation... i have tryed it out and booting bzimage and rootfs from grub workes fine. But the only issue is.... no changes can be stored.

Is there a How To or any way to make changes permanently by a frugal installation?
(similarly puppy linux or xpud ... there changes will be stored in a file an loaded every boot)

Thank an regards ...

HMA :)

(p.s. .. apologize my not very good english)

Posted 1 year ago #
Trixar_za

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It mentions Frugal installs here, so maybe it can help you:
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:uncommoninst

Posted 1 year ago #
mojo

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Slitaz has no script that autosaves the root filesystem changes on a frugal system.
Before shutdown either "tazusb writefs" from xterm , right click menu SliTaz Live ,or SliTaz Desktop logout box checkboxes
Tazusb frugal install setup :
grub menu.lst: kernel /boot/bzImage home=sdxx or hdxx
/home is mounted to partition, everything written to regular users home folder is saved to disk
/home/boot contains bzImage(kernel),rootfs.gz,previous.gz, etc
To save all installed programs and configs not in /home :
Before shutdown:
#tazusb writefs gz
I don't use lzma it always ends up corrupting the rootfs.gz
Old rootfs.gz are renamed and kept as backups in /home/boot along with kernel.
#tazusb clean
Safely removes older timestamped rootfs.gz backups
To boot with a backedup rootfs.gz, edit grub menu on boot:
initrd /boot/rootfs.gz
to
initrd /boot/previous.gz
If your partition is large no compression writefs is fast:
#tazusb writefs
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:liveusb
file:///usr/share/doc/tazusb/tazusb.htm
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazusb/file/b65e12e46feb/tazusb

Posted 1 year ago #
moulefrite

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There's something interesting here :

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:frugal#tuning-the-boot-process

The fact is that the way to create a " /boot/extra-softwares.gz " or " /boot/my-config-files.gz " is NOT explained :(

Posted 1 year ago #
Bellard

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To create 'compressed cpio archives' :
# find the-list-of-files | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > /boot/extra-softwares.gz

Example:
# find /etc/rcS.conf /etc/daemons.conf /etc/dropbear /home/tux/.ssh | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > /boot/my-config-files.gz

Posted 1 year ago #
moulefrite

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Greazt! ;D

Now what about to package it with lzma or even with none compression ?

Posted 1 year ago #
moulefrite

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To create 'compressed cpio archives' :
# find the-list-of-files | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > /boot/extra-softwares.gz

euh ... "find the list of files" ? a folder with tazpkg's ? I thought it was just to load in RAM a bigger rootfs ... not sure I'm right

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