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• Started 12 years ago by iisl
• Latest reply from kitty____
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   iisl
   

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   I am interesting slitaz and i have a question:
   is it possible to run slitaz\slitaz-loram\slitaz-loram-cdrom with gui
   on very old PC: P-133MHz, 16Mb RAM, boot from CD not supported by bios?
   I try to boot slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom via PLOP or SBM - CD is booting
   but "kernel panic" at the "mount" stage ("mounting /dev/hdd on /mnt/.cdrom
   failed: No medium found")

   Понравился мне slitaz и хочу спросить:
   как запустить(если вообще возможно) слитаз(с графикой) на старом пне: 133МГц,
   16Мб озу, биос не поддерживает загрузку с CD?
   Пробовал slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom через PLOP и SBM - CD запускается, но затем
   "kernel panic" на этапе монтирования ("mounting /dev/hdd on /mnt/.cdrom
   failed: No medium found")

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   Well slitaz-3.0-loram-cdrom should boot... We have something to fix :(

   You can not run a SliTaz live CD in RAM with 16Mb.
   But you can run Tiny SliTaz (starting with 8Mb).
   Build your customized floppy from http://tiny.slitaz.org/ or easier :
   download the floppy http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/tiny-slitaz

   Boot the floppy and install manually SliTaz from the CD :
   # fdisk /dev/<your-disk>
   # mke2fs -j /dev/<your-partition>
   # mkdir /mnt/disk /mnt/cdrom
   # mount /dev/<your-partition> /mnt/disk
   # mount /dev/<your-cdrom> /mnt/cdrom
   # cd /mnt/cdrom/boot
   # cat $(ls -r rootfs*gz) | ( cd /mnt/disk ; cpio -idm )
   # cd /mnt/disk
   # mkdir boot
   # cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/bzImage boot
   # umount /mnt/cdrom
   # chroot . /bin/sh
   # cp -al /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc /boot/grub
   # vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
   # grub
   grub> root (hd0,0)
   grub> setup (hd0)
   grub> quit
   ....

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   iisl
   

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   Bellard, thanks for your answer. I will trying ...
   But i didn't understand - run with gui is possible or not with 16Mb RAM?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Bellard
   

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   Short answer : No
   Long answer : with some swap you will be able to launch X eventually. But it will be so slow that you will not want to use it.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   iisl
   

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   it's a pity... i was hoping to revive an old PC...
   But many thanks for your answers, best regards.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   erdosain9
   

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   You could probably try Kolibri OS, and those operating systems, there are a couple more of the style.

   Just depends on what you want.

   This is a translation of google

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   kitty____
   

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   You can use Baslinux) And, maybe, old versions Slackware, Altlinux...... Good luck! But, I want to try Tiny Slitaz with elinks, network modules, mplayer
   )

   Posted 11 years ago #

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