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Installation problem / problème

Hi,

I've downloaded the 3.0 stable version & tazusb.exe to create a bootable usb key through windows.

When I start my notebook, I'm greeted by a logo "boot baby....boot!".

It asks me for my language, then my keyboard setup, then a screen appears.

I'm gonna write everything I see on that screen:

[Welcome to your box.

Slitaz boot time: 31s

SliTaz GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.30.6-slitaz tty1

slitaz login:]

I'm stuck there!

What am I suppose to do?

Je parle aussi français.

Merci / Thank you!

black dog

Member

Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 331

Re: Installation problem / problème

I guess you can not start the X server and you can only work on the console (text results). To start the X server should be set up support for your video card. This requires access to the Internet to install additional packages.

But I'm just starting to get acquainted with Slitaz and yet also not solved the problem.

We'll wait for advice from more experienced colleagues.

ms

Member

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 90

Re: Installation problem / problème

@d4j0k3r, you are ending with console login because the X server requires video support to be configured correctly (as correctly pointed out by @black dog) and probably in your case it failed to detect automatically. Without that X server fails to load and leaves you with the console.

You can try the following:

- at the slitaz login: prompt, login as root/root.

- Optional: to verify it is a video card configuration issue, you can type 'more /var/log/Xorg.0.log', this will tell you what we wrong with X server starting up.

- to setup your video card, type in tazx at the prompt (you will need to have an active Internet connection for this to work, if you cannot get your wireless working from the command prompt, try a wired connection, that's usually your best bet)

- when tazx loads, select the option 'install Xorg or reconfigure' (or something like that)

- select your video card

- at this point, tazx will download the correct drivers for your video card and install them along with any other packages needed.

- once tazx is complete, you can try rebooting and see if you get the graphical login screen, if not you will need to setup the correct parameters for your video card driver. to do this you will need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf or if you are using cooking edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-Screen.conf (and/or other files in that directory as needed). There is a guide somewhere on this site that describes how to configure xorg, I'll try to find that for you.

Try the steps above and post your results and we can take it from there.

ms

Member

Registered: 2011-04-01

Posts: 90

Re: Installation problem / problème

Actually, just follow the steps in this guide, it's more comprehensive, http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:xorg-xvesa