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• Started 6 years ago by lm2
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   lm2
   

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   i'm not giving about any tom cruise movie regarding the title,
   but here on both ISO available (15th and 30th) i'm just in the impossible case of installing slitaz next on a laptop which old slitaz 5 has been destroyed by the Next grub attempt of installation..

   sda6 => taz5
   sda7 => home
   sda9 => Next

   now i just can't use the computer, cause command-line installer failed, adn web one just doesnt launch...

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   is there a way to install slitaz on a particular partition without using the installer?
   then to reinstall grub on this last partition?

   (yes, nobody's alive on the irc..)

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   how boys have you done to install slitaz ?

   each time i have 'process not completed"

   changing filesystem, changing passwords, with or without /home partition..

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   Can it be done manually as described here, with help of your live USB or CD (your computer has no working OS now!?):
   http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation#manual-by-hand-installation

   Local authorities should confirm, running SliTaz for just days from an USB myself.

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   aledie : ty for the answer

   a) it is not my computer
   >your computer has no working OS now!?
   b) a windows partition, a slitaz5 partition, an home partition, no grub working to use any of these 3 least.
   c) i'm looking at your manual.
   problem : grub-installer is not available on the NEXT iso.

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   lm2
   

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   just installed grub, trying to install it:
   "this may take a long time" hope it will done in next few hours..

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   lm2
   

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   so i did the handmade installation..
   grub doesnt works... i took back slitaz 5:
   cmp : EOF on /tmp/ ..
   thats appears six times then
   the file not read correctly;

   linux, sometimes....

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   @ lm2,

   grub doesnt works

   Can you be more precise?

   I've meat some troubles with the grub-install command in Rolling:

   # grub-inslall
   bash: grub-inslall: command not found
   # sh grub-install
   sh: can't open 'grub-install'
   # tazpkg -r bash
   Remove package "bash" (4.4.5)? (y/N) y
   

   Then I closed/open the session and grub-install worked. Don't know if it is the same with Next.

   Posted 6 years ago #
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   how boys have you done to install slitaz ? each time i have 'process not completed"

   Well the question is: how did you do?

   From Rolling installed on sda2:

   • open TazPanel, login as root
   • choose Installation > Install SliTaz > [Continue installation]
   • Select source media: ISO file = /home/iso/slitaz-next-170930.iso (/home is on the separate partition sda3)
   • Select destination: Install SliTaz to partition= /dev/sda6 next (ext3)
   • home partition: Separate partition for /home= <none>
   • [Proceed to SliTaz installation]

   and no problem...

   Posted 6 years ago #
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    booted on NEXT
    installed grub2
    grub-install /dev/sda

    ==> installing for i386-pc plateform
    grub-install : error : failed to get canonical path of 'tmpfs'

    i think this asus laptop just can't put a grub conf inside of the HDD : even with grub1 on slitaz 5, it was failing with an EOF something..

    Posted 6 years ago #
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    not rolling, which is an evolution of slitaz 5

    i can't use taz5 here because it cannot use properly the video card

    so it's mandatory here to take NEXT;

    but the NEXT installer (okay, i just understood where alexej and kultex get the name : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT )
    doesnt allows me to choose an install or an upgrade, links are just going to the same page; only evaluation is working;

    so i had to install it handly with the page you gave me; it works (i thought) until the grub one : grub gave me an EOF error message;
    here, it's with grub2, i had:
    grub-install : error : failed to get canonical path of 'tmpfs'

    Posted 6 years ago #
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    grub-install /dev/sda

    Don't you have to indicate a root directory?
    grub-install --root-directory=DIR /dev/sda

    The HD must be mount (ie: in /mnt); the command should be
    grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
    No?

    Posted 6 years ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    And you can find the Tazinst manual here: http://hg.slitaz.org/tazinst/raw-file/tip/doc/tazinst.en.html

    But I confess that if you don't know it exists and where it is you cannot find it; this manual is not indicate in the start page.
    I'll do it this week end.

    I'm going to try tazinst from Next and see what's the problem.

    Posted 6 years ago #
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    even if i indicate the --root-directory, it's the same thing; and course the /boot directory is mounted..

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    mount /dev/sda9 /media/flash
    (where sda9 is my NEXT / install)
    grub-install --root-directory=/media/flash /dev/sda9
    and
    grub-install --root-directory=/media/flash /dev/sda

    give the same :
    root@slitaz:/home/tux# grub-install --root-directory=/media/flash /dev/sda
    cmp: EOF on /tmp/grub-install.img.7j727o
    cmp: EOF on /tmp/grub-install.img.7j727o
    cmp: EOF on /tmp/grub-install.img.7j727o
    cmp: EOF on /tmp/grub-install.img.7j727o
    cmp: EOF on /tmp/grub-install.img.7j727o
    The file /media/flash/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

    thats what i have with slitaz5

    with NEXT, with grub2:

    root@slitaz:/home/tux# grub-install --root-directory=/media/flash /dev/sda9
    Installing for i386-pc platform.
    grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
    grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
    grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
    root@slitaz:/home/tux# grub-install --root-directory=/media/flash /dev/sda
    Installing for i386-pc platform.
    Installation finished. No error reported.

    ==> grub2
    minimal bash like...
    grub>

    Posted 6 years ago #

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