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I have a rather puzzling issue with my Slitaz 4 installation on a Pentium 3(m) laptop. Firefox will open web sites and works as it should. Midori refuses to connect to anything saying the host cannot be found. It's not a great problem but midori is useful on this rather slow laptop. Can anyone help me with this please.
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Take slitaz 5 - its better and quicker than 4
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I'm using a Panasonic cf-28. It doesn't boot slitaz 5. I've no idea why. Goes through the motion then hangs on a flashing cursor on a blank screen.
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here are some hints for the cf-28
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/panasonic-toughbook-cf-28-touchscreen-under-linux-solved-and-working-530918/
it should work fine with vesa - so
boot slitaz 5.0 - goto
slitaz core live
add "nomodeset" to the bootline
if this does not help - the videocard is a neomagic - so
add "screen=text" to the boorline
get root - and ran
tazx
select the neomagic driver
get user tux with exit
startx
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Thanks for your response Kultex. I will persevere with 5 but the 28 does not use the neomagic. My cf-27 does have the neomagic gpu but this cf-28 has an intel graphic chip, I cant recall what exactly offhand. However i will play around and see if I can get 5 running. So far its running 4 really well considering its moest cpu and ram but I stll have the issue with menu entries for Libre office being missing (please help see my other post)
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Then run tazx and select the Intel driver.....
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I have just tried again to boot Slitaz 5 network boot from the boot floppy. It eventually hangs with this message
kernel panic not syncing VPS unable to mount root fs on unknown block
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do you have still windows on the hd? -then try the frugal booting
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:frugal
you can also try the plop boot manager
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html
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I don't have Windows on the drive at all. I have been using plop boot floppy but it is a bit hit and miss as to what OS it will boot from a USB drive. For example it will boot Vector Linux created with unetbootin but it will not boot slitaz again created with unetbootin.
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sorry, but you have to find a way to boot 5.0
didi you try this?
http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/#floppy
see notes on unetbootin - its not working with rolling
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:liveusb
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you have installed slitaz 4.0?
so you just adopt your grub to the frugal booting as descibed before
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I have discovered that Midori will connect to some sites ie this forum page. Midori in Sliltaz 4 is very old and I believe that this is the problem so as far as I can tell this issue is unresolvable. The browser is just too dated.
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Yelp - Thats why i told you to use 5.0 - and even midori in 5.0 is to old, so we are waiting on 6.0
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Unfortunately I cannot get 5 to run on this. I'm sure there is a way but my Linux knowledge is very limited. Slitaz 4 runs well out of the box. I'll persevere with 5 when I get spare time but for now I'll keep 4. I'm even running 3 on an even older machine. I rarely go on line on either these oldies so I'm not too worried about security.
Thanks for the replies.
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Isn't your midori problem caused by out of date certificates?
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I'll mark this solved as I'm sure it's just this midori version is just well past its sell by date and not a fault as such.
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Well, the fault is that this version of Midori is still the official one in the package lists of the official Slitaz stable...
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