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raj

Member

Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 20

Slitaz installer seems to be missing

I'm running the slitaz.rolling.iso live cd published Nov 27, 2016.

I've finally got all the hardware working and want to install to a hard drive.

I run

menu->System Tools->Slitaz Installer

a panel saying "tazpanel installer" asks for the root password, I enter root.

Then a web page pops up saying "404 Not Found".

Where is the installer? What do I do to run the installer?

I tried

# sudo tazpanel installer

and entered the root password

and it printed

  http://127.0.0.1:82/installer.cgi?guiuser=root

in the terminal window and brought up the same "404 not found" web page.

Is the installer just a web page of instructions?

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

The installer browser front end is broken on my installed system as well.

The installer requires you partition/format the install target with gparted.

There is an ncurses terminal front end for the installer.

Open a terminal, login as root.

Type

slitaz-installer

Hit enter

The problem on my system for the browser front end was missing installer.cgi which is owned by tazinst-gui.

[c]tazpkg -gi tazinst-gui[/c]

lexeii

Administrator

Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

Hi there,

I running the [c]slitaz-rolling.iso[/c] from 16-11-27 too. And it contains [c]tazinst[/c] and [c]tazinst-gui[/c] packages as well. It not display any "404" for me.

Seems like you have a small amount of RAM. Then the SliTaz 4-in-1 ISO not boots the Core flavor. Instead of it it can boot Justx or Gtkonly, or Base flavors.

For example, Justx contains the package [c]tazinst[/c], but not contains any of [c]tazinst-gui[/c] or [c]tazpanel[/c].

FYI: http://hg.slitaz.org/flavors/file/tip

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PS. I just ran SliTaz Gtkonly from latest slitaz-rolling.iso.

Gtkonly "russian doll" is smaller than Core and bigger than Justx. And this Gtkonly not contains [c]tazinst-gui[/c] too.

Everything is worse than it looked. This Gtkonly looks like useless toy for me (and JustX as well):

[*]it missed web browser, so we can't use TazPanel with its graphical installer, package manager, network manager, and a bunch of other tools;

[*]it missed even Yad, so we can't use tazbox with its tools like subox (graphical sudo), graphical utilities for configuring system locale, keyboard layout, etc. And "Favorite applications" in the menu.

Furthermore, "Menu → System → SliTaz Installer" execute the command:

[c]Exec=sh -c "which tazpanel && subox tazpanel installer || subox terminal -e slitaz-installer"[/c]
This means: if executable file called "tazpanel" is present in the system, then run the command "subox tazpanel installer", otherwise run "subox terminal -e slitaz-installer". In the case of "Gtkonly" our "subox" is fails to execute, because "Gtkonly" missed "Yad".

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PPS. Problem located (finally, over a long time).

Package "yad" should be there. But tazpkg refuses to install it because package "gtk+" was not installed previously". Please, wait a hour or so, I'll rebuild new ISOs.

raj

Member

Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 20

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

Thank you for the help. I was eventually able to install using

# sudo slitaz-installer

and a copy of the slitaz.rolling.iso stored in the running live cd file system.

All other methods failed.

1. slitaz-installer would not use the live cd to install from, it ran but finished with some incomplete message. I had to put a copy of the iso in the file system to get it to work.

2. installing tazinst-gui did bring back the menu->System Tools->Slitaz Installer panel but

installing directly to hd or the option to install and co-exist with windows both failed.

Each time it said that my copy of the iso was not valid.

However I do have an installed Slitaz now and it recognized all my hardware automatically and installed all modules and drivers (something the live cd did not).

Genesis

Member

Registered: 2014-07-03

Posts: 109

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

Hi!

Just an additional information: it is possible to install Slitaz using only the terminal.

I posted a method here:

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/error-15-files-no-found/page/2#post-43535

I have also noted the same bugs Aleksej mentioned, but I used my method above to install Slitaz.

lexeii

Administrator

Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

Hi there!

Problem with the SliTaz installer solved in the ISOs dated 2016-12-06.

Now Gtkonly contains Yad and slitaz-tools works.

Problem was some time ago I created a virtual package "yad" and three real packages "yad-gtk2", "yad-gtk3" and "yad-gtk2-html".

[*]If you need to install "yad" and you have GTK+2 installed, then package "yad-gtk2" will be installed;

[*]GTK+3 -- "yad-gtk3";

[*]GTK+2 and libWebkit -- "yad-gtk2-html" (it depends both on GTK+2 and libWebkit and will not work without them both).

But I never imagined that could be the next case: you need to install "yad" but have none of GTK+2 or GTK+3 installed. This situation certainly was on the process of the ISO creation that uses "flavor" (list of packages), and "yad" was not installed on the Gtkonly.

raj

Member

Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 20

Re: Slitaz installer seems to be missing

As a follow up:

I found that there was something wrong with the slitaz cd that I was using.

I burned a fresh copy of slitaz.rolling.iso albeit a slightly later version and when I booted the system recognized my sound card, my pcmcia ethernet card and installed and loaded the appropriate drivers and the slitaz installer also functioned properly without me doing anything.

I don't know how I was able to boot to a sort-of functioning system with the bad cd being so bad.