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Hello
I am trying to load SliTaz on an old Acer Aspire with 190MB RAM. I have tried most of the selectable boots (Live, Core, etc) but I only get a "slitaz login" prompt. With the first option, boot SliTaz Live, I see a bold "Welcome to your box." before a display of the load time, the kernel version, then the login prompt.
I have tried logging in and running "startx", but I get a "Fatal server error; server is already active for display 0", etc.
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190 MB is to little - try it with lowram iso
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/4.0/flavors/
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Thanks
I have tried loram - same login prompt.
xorg-light - same login prompt.
loram-cdrom - same login prompt.
Any other ideas gratefully accepted!
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May be a problem causes by the graphic card.
Try with slitaz-3.0-xvesa
Do you try to boot from a Live ? CD, USB, frugal... ?
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I have loaded slitaz 3 without a problem, so this should not be a graphics card problem.
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I meant it could be a problem of driver.
At prompt, login as root an run [c]tazx[/c] to try to load the good driver.
more information @ http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:xorg-xvesa
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I have now tried many different iso's - I even tried a boot from the web. All failed in one way or another, so I have gone back to basics.
I have re-downloaded slitaz-4.0-loram.iso, burned to cd and booted from it.
I selected the default (first) option, Live, and selected my locale and keyboard when asked.
I got the "slitaz login" prompt - no windows manager.
So, following your advice, I logged in as root and ran "lspci" to determine he video card - it is VIA, with S3 Unichrome in brackets.
tazhw shows via-agp.
I ran "tazpkg get-install linux-agp" - this said it was already installed.
I ran "tazx", selected Install/reconfigure xorg, and selected the S3 driver.
The display told me to test the changes by runnig "X -config /root/xorg.config.new" - this gave a Fatal error - Server is already active!
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Update
I can load slitaz 3 core - this gives me the Windows manager.
If I then try to Install to the hard disk, this seems to work but on rebooting from the hard disk, it stops with a "#"prompt during the boot process immediately after the line "freeing unused kernel memory 408k freed"
I can also see that when I select the Slitaz Installer from the loaded 3.0 core loram, there are error messages flashing up during the final phases - I haven't been able to see them properly, but it looks like errors in creating files in the etc directory for one. I will try again and see if I can find out more.
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Update
I have now downloaded slitaz 3 core loram and burned to cd; I boot from this, then run the slitaz-installer after adding S3 video driver via tazx. I have done all this before after using a web boot of 3 core loram.
But now the install has worked - there were no error messages flashing up during the install process.
So - it looks to me as if there is a problem using the installer from the web boot (of course with the large number of attempts I have made so far it is possible that something else was the problem).
Now I will move on to try to upgrade to a loram version of 4 - if that is possible to run with 190MB.
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Cool!
I run SliTaz 4.0 with 256MB that I installed from 4.0 loram in web boot. It's sometimes a little slow on the internet and don't think to look at video. But quite correct with SoftMaker free office and other standard applications.
Make a swap partition (300MB at least)
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[ PARTIAL SOLUTION ]
Both of the following work.
menuentry "slitaz slitaz-3.0-xvesa" {
loopback loop /boot/iso/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso
gfxpayload=800x600
linux (loop)/boot/bzImage isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1662-5E2F/boot/iso/slitaz-4.0.iso boot=live quiet noeject noprompt
initrd (loop)/boot/rootfs.gz
}
menuentry "slitaz slitaz-3.0-xvesa II" {
loopback loop /boot/iso/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso
gfxpayload=800x600
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz isofrom=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1662-5E2F/boot/iso/slitaz-4.0.iso boot=live quiet noeject noprompt
initrd (loop)/boot/rootfs.gz
}
Get the iso for the older version 3.0 of Slitaz
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/3.0/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso
I remain committed to solving this for version 4.
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I am almost there. I use the following to start the O.S. All the content from the iso have been extracted to the usb stick at "/boot/slitaz/"
For Grub2 Works
menuentry 'Slitaz 4.0 Live tazpider suggestion II' {
linux /boot/slitaz/boot/bzImage lang=en kmap=en
initrd /boot/slitaz/boot/rootfs.gz
}
For Grub4Dos Works
title Slitaz rootfs
kernel /boot/slitaz/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/ram0 vga=791 lang=en kmap=en
initrd /boot/slitaz/boot/rootfs.gz
I get to the commandline and login in using "tux" [enter]
su root [enter]
password: root [enter]
I have to find out what is my video card.
lspci [enter]
I have an Nvida video card so I use the nv drivers.
tazx [enter]
choose vesa it downloads vesa drivers.
I select nv. It sets that up.
This is where I am stuck. Xserver is running for the tux user and root. How do I stop it from running and start x using vesa drivers?
This does not stop the xserver "alt-ctrl-backspace". I tried it in the tux user and root user. Getting help from http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:xorg-xvesa and http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:xwindow
Thanks, Lex
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