Updates on the system and some other questions

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Started 11 years ago by frash23
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frash23

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Hello!
I have used SliTaz for over a month now, and im loving it!

Though, i have a couple of questions;

1) Updates?
I haven't seen any news postages for a long time, and i still havent found a version of rolling stable enough to replace 4.0 (i'm pretty experienced with linux, so i can fix most bugs myself etc.). I really want to donate to the project, but i just can't see if it is dying or being discontinued - does anyone know the status of 5.0 or whatever is comming up? I absolutely love the cooking repository, but it easily breaks a 4.0 install (i updated GTK, what a mistake).

2) Persistent live USB?
I really think that a non-persisten live USB defeats a lot of purposes. Sure, you can do a lot of stuff with it, but i love me some portable OS. When i booted up my rolling liveUSB (created with 4.0's live UBS creator), i didnt get any boot options, so i assume it is an upcomming feature (rolling won't boot on my laptop), but i havent seen any news on it.

Thank you for reading, and keep up the amazing work. This is my preffered OS of all time.

Posted 11 years ago #
subreptice

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Hello frash23.

Wok is working (5 hours ago at this time), devs are busy, forums are alive, so
slitaz is alive :-)

Posted 11 years ago #
frash23

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I don't really know what the wok is (reading the manual now), but thanks for the answer :)

I might donate around 20$ soon.

Posted 11 years ago #
christophe

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Not sure what you mean with the persistent live usb.
If you update the live usb system, you can save it before shutting down (tazusb writeiso).
And at boot time the USB should be mounted at /home so that your data is saved to USB also.
It this what you are doing/have understood from the documentation ?

Posted 11 years ago #
frash23

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I used the LiveUSB creator in the system utilities when making it. I haven't read much of the documentation to be honest, but looking at the liveUSB page, i feel pretty dumb.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Posted 11 years ago #
christophe

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This is not the best part of the documentation (i took me months litterally, to be able to build a working liveusb so I will be happy to explain if you need some more help).

I cannot tell from your answer if your problem is solved or not. Is everything working as you think it should ? :)

Posted 11 years ago #
frash23

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I still don't really understand how to get it working, no, is there any good tutorial for it? :P

Posted 11 years ago #
christophe

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I am speaking from memory (and recopied a former post of mine alos) so I hope there are no mistakes left

The short story :

- Get a new, fresh, empty ramkey
- Make it ready to boot slitaz: tazusb get-liveusb
- Reboot from the ramkey, slitaz boots to RAM and mount the ram key as /home
- Do changes to your system if you wish (eg update the system, install firefox); in order to write the changes to the key for future reboots: tazusb writefs (before shutting down)
- If you have not done it yet, edit $TARGET_USB_ROOT/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and add the following lines (below the line "# labels")
```
LABEL Slitaz_on_USB
MENU LABEL SliTaz Custom on USB
KERNEL /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin home=[copy the block id label from the other boot lines]
```
- reboot from your key and choose the option from boot menu "SliTaz Custom on USB"

(This is where I might be wrong from memory, I think i have struggled to reboot from saved system until I added the entry in extlinux.conf)

Hope this helps.
Posted 11 years ago #
frash23

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Alright, thanks.
I don't have my USB with me right now, so i'll have to test it later.
Also, is there a way to make it run tazusb writefs when i shut down so i dont have to do it everytime?

Posted 11 years ago #
christophe

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check
# /etc/init.d/rc.shutdown - This script is used by /etc/inittab to stop
# all daemons and shutdown the system.

I personnally would not automate that. First there is a warning if you use the menu (you could add one in the shutdown command)
but more than that, it defeats the whole purpose of the frugal system (on top of speed since it runs from memory) which is to make sure your system keeps its integrity (just reboot if it breaks). So that apart from the initial set up and some tweakings, why do that ?

It is a personal choice of course

Posted 11 years ago #
frash23

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Hmm. I see your point. I just liked the way other distro's LiveUSB's worked. Thanks for mentioning that, i'll probably not automate it anyway (thanks a alot for mentioning that file though).

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