not a support question
gs26
offlineMember
Hello.
1.- Do you consider that this PC may be compatible with Slitaz 4.0?
Dell Optiplex G1
Intel Celeron 432 MHz
320 MB RAM
I just tested Slitaz 3.0 on liveCD but it would be interesting to have the new version.
2.- Which are the advantages you see in Slitaz 4.0 versus another distro as Linux Puppy Wary (for old hardware)?
Thanks!
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
1. Maybe. I have a PIII Celeron 950Mhz with 256MB RAM. Slitaz 4 runs fine on it.
2. Compared to Puppy? Over 3000 modern packages, the ability to convert packages from other distros and several user created packages and sites. Central control panel and an uncluttered interface.
But like I always say, try if first, then decide for yourself.
gs26
offlineMember
Hi!
Thanks for your answer.
1.- I think I'll try later.
2.- Puppy Wary it's the alternative SO I'm considering for installing in hard drive and give this pc to another who makes her first time in Linux.
By now I like the clarity in the interface of Slitaz.
Am I loosing to much if I stay in Slitaz3 in spite of Slitaz4?
Is Slitaz3 capable of bring a better overall performance once installed in hard drive in comparation to LiveCD?
Thanks!
Trixar_za
offlineKey Master
Mostly you'll just be trading the newer features and packages for 2 years older stuff. SliTaz 3 also doesn't come with the Nvidia Xorg drivers or the general wifi drivers by default.
With some things SliTaz 3 has better support though, especially with really old systems.
Depends on your requirements I guess
xtinctionRebel
offlineMember
System Requirements seem to be undocumented for SliTaz.
For the record, I tried to install the latest "slitaz-rolling.iso" today and it failed because the installer didn't have enough ramdisk on a:
Celeron 500MHz with 256mb RAM
Gives a /kernel panic/. The same boot disk works fine on modern hardware, but I selected SliTaz for this ancient system because distrowatch.com says:
"SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM."
That needs to be updated considering the installer itself can't handle it. I tried to comment to distrowatch.com about this but their system is screwed up.. the "submit review" button just redraws the screen.
Ceel
offlineAdministrator
Hi xtinctionRebel
You're not totally wrong but not totally right. You should be able to install SliTaz with tazinst from the console. When you boot your live, choose base
SliTaz Rolling works fine on my old P4 1.5GHz with 256MB; but I guess it'll be a little slow with a 500MHz CPU :( In any case, you'll need a swap partition.
Last thing, very often the kernel panic is caused by an incorrect root= instruction in the Grub4dos menu, check it.
xtinctionRebel
offlineMember
i'm tempted to try the tazinst install. I don't see a boot loader config in the doc you linked. It seems to assume something is already installed from which to run tazinst. Should I install Puppy linux or something, then run tazinst from within Puppy?
xtinctionRebel
offlineMember
Thanks gibor. Sorry to say that does not fix it. I'm using this grub.cfg stanza to boot the ISO:
=====8<--------------
menuentry "SliTaz ISO" {
set iso_path=/slitaz-rolling.iso
loopback loop $iso_path
linux (loop)/boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/null gfxpayload=vga=normal autologin isofrom=$isofile mem=250Mb noeject noprompt lang=en kmap=en --
initrd (loop)/boot/rootfs4.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs3.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs2.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs1.gz
}
=====8<--------------
This is the last line of output when it attempts to boot:
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...
Bellard
offlineKey Master
In your case SliTaz may need 256+54=310Mb
Can you test slitaz-rolling-loram.iso ?
=====8<--------------
menuentry "SliTaz ISO" {
set iso_path=/slitaz-rolling-loram.iso
loopback loop $iso_path
linux (loop)/boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/null gfxpayload=vga=normal autologin isofrom=$isofile noeject noprompt lang=en kmap=en --
initrd (loop)/boot/rootfs.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs4.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs3.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs2.gz (loop)/boot/rootfs1.gz
}
=====8<--------------
xtinctionRebel
offlineMember
@bellard
Tried booting the *loram ISO from grub and it gives a different kernel panic:
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Anyway, I guess I'll just have to boot the ISO the conventional way when only 256mb ram is available.
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