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Hello! I installed Slitaz Rolling on my uncle's old laptop (Compaq N7400 with 55GB of hard disk and 1GB of RAM) but it won't boot, it shows a black blank screen (when I install it without bootlader) or "LZMA is corrupted, system halted" (if I install it with bootlader). I tried to format the hard disk in ext4, ext3 and in ext2 but none of these tries have worked. Is there any solution? I've also tried to burn the ISO to different USB stick and programs too
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Maybe I’m not the right person to answere this question ( beeing a novice myself )
I used Rufus to burn the ISO on a USBstick.
Than fired the computer up from that stick.
When it was running I copyed the ISO to the desktop and removed the live stick.
Slitaz keeps running in RAM.
Than I went to system tools and started the installer.
Clicked on install, scrolled down and clickt on continue install.
The next screen shows a number of lines to fill in.
There is a box that shows the ISO, click on it and the path is filled in.
It asks on which partition you want to install, make your choice .
Scroll down and click on install boot loader.
And than on install.
Worked for me.
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To me, that LZMA suggests a problem during the iso download.......I would try again and check the md5 for accuracy.
If the md5 is correct it may install completly
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I'll try to install it taking off the usb stick during the live session..if it doesn't work I'll try to redownload and check if the md5 is correct as plumtreed said..thanks anyways
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I've tried what you have both said but none of the two solution worked..I don't know if what I'm going to say could be a thing but when I create the system partition it shows "mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L /dev/sda1".. could be this a problem ? Because as I said the computer has 1GB of RAM and I know that a 64bit system can be installed on a computer that has 4GB+ of RAM.. If I'm not wrong
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Hi vero2925, have tried same iso on HP nx7300, and after installation the screen is blank....
it shows a black blank screen
My installation is on ext3, and to solve at boot of grub press “E” and then add at end “nomodeset”
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz root=/dev/sda5 video=-32 quiet nomodeset
This kernel not full support device Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
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I've tried to add the "nomodeset" but didn't work 
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@vero2925
Your notebook (nx7400) have same grafik card of nx7300, and probabilty the bug is identical.
If your installation not work, there is something wrong...
My step: burned iso on cdrom
launch live and install system with bootloader
at reboot add the nomodeset at grub
enjoy.
Good luck! 
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I burned the iso on a usb stick then launched the live session and installed the system in ext3 with bootloader..at reboot I added the nomodeset at grub but didn't work anyway..don't know what else to do
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I've just tried to install the slitaz-rolling-core-5in1.iso ("Full desktop with gtkonly, justx and base alternatives, with 32 bits kernel and 64 bits Kernel. The default boot selects the best flavor according the RAM size. The Kernel is selected according the processor type.") but didn't work too
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After installation screen of grub appear?
Remove quiet from grub menu, add nomodeset and launch. If not boot correctly post the screen image of still boot.
Ps sorry for my English but if you want to speack Italian I prefering...
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Warning: the installation with usb stick not work!
Edit: have create an usb stick with slitaz-rolling.iso
dd if=slitaz-rolling.iso of=/dev/sdb (on this case sdb is my stik)
set from bios legacy usb support enabled
launch from usb the live
from tazpanel installer on my case the usb source are detected /dev/sdb... but there is vrong the device are /dev/sdb1 !
close the installer, and the trick to temporary correct the installation is:
open terminal as root and then
rm /dev/sr0
ln -s /dev/sdb /dev/sr0
launch tazpanel installer and select the source “live cd”
for me work (exept to add the nomodeset at grub)
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Si possiamo parlare in italiano..adesso provo a vedere se cancello quiet dalla stringa e aggiungo nomodeset funziona..
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"Edit: have create an usb stick with slitaz-rolling.iso
dd if=slitaz-rolling.iso of=/dev/sdb (on this case sdb is my stik)
set from bios legacy usb support enabled
launch from usb the live
from tazpanel installer on my case the usb source are detected /dev/sdb... but there is vrong the device are /dev/sdb1 !
close the installer, and the trick to temporary correct the installation is:
open terminal as root and then
rm /dev/sr0
ln -s /dev/sdb /dev/sr0
launch tazpanel installer and select the source “live cd”
Ha funzionato grazie mille!
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Bene, forse per sbaglio, ma sembra che ho centrato il problema. 
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