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Slitaz 4.0 RC2 + RC3:
If I make a root file-system on HD with:
cat $(ls -r rootfs*.gz) > rootfs.gz
unlzma -c rootfs.gz | cpio -id
And add the extlinux bootloader with the following slitaz.cfg:
display isolinux.msg
label slitaz
KERNEL /boot/bzImage
APPEND root=/dev/hda7 lang=C kmap=us vga=normal autologin
include common.cfg
Booting is fine but during loading I get a KERNEL PANIC.
And have to power off the hard way.
I tried this several times on a Dell Inspiron 3000: Pentium 1 233Mhz 148Mb memory.
+256Mb swap.
SliTaz Cooking 20110531 is working very well the same way on the same laptop.
(with, of course, a different KERNEL-line and rootfs.gz is ready already)
So I'm afraid I'll have to stick with Cooking 20110531 ??? 
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Friendly Greetings, Crawler
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According to Mojo's answer on the first page of this post : http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-on-my-old-computer, it might be you do not have enough RAM... :-(
By the way, have you tried RC4?
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Maybe try http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-core-4in1.iso - It worked on my 256MB RAM where RC3 didn't. The downside is having to boot it from command line using [c]core lang=en_US kmap=us[/c] to avoid the screen going into standby after setting your language and keyboard options.
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Booting and running from cd went fine. It only loaded rootfs4.gz and rootfs3.gz.
May be I should try only these 2 with a HD install ?
For now I used all 4. All 4 should be possible without using a ramdisk and using swap I thought ????
This is the most normal install you can think of.
And it doesn't work.
I'm very sorry. But these RC's appear like Alpha or Beta to me ?
I presume RC4 is the rolling one ?
I'll give that one a try if I can find time for it. And post it here.
Thanks for your reply.
Friendly greetings, Crawler
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I'm SORRY. It was all MY OWN PANIC and FAULT.
I forgot 'rw' in the append line.
This made all the difference.
In Slitaz 3.0 this 'rw' was not obligatory.
RC2 + RC3 + RC4 are all booting; loading and login' in very fine now.
Thanks for your wonderfull help. Hihi.
Friendly Greetings, Crawler
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Sorry again.
I was able to reproduce the kernel panic now with the slitaz-4.0.iso
I'm trying on Alpine Linux to get Slitaz installed on HD with a normal root-dir structure.
Slitaz 1.0 or 2.0 was my first Linux entrance.
I loved it's lightweightness.
"Not running in ram" has the lowest ram requirements.
So a root file system seems a perfect choice for running Slitaz.
Everything went fine untill Slitaz 4.0.
The above, in this topic, described method worked to some extend.
But it didn't work right for the final rootfs.gz doesn't contain
all the files from rootfs1+2+3+4.gz.
Trying things again via Midnight Commander in Alpine Linux:
mv rootfs1.gz rootfs1.xz --> for .gz doesn't seem to be a valid extention for unlzma.
mv rootfs2.gz rootfs2.xz
mv rootfs3.gz rootfs3.xz
mv rootfs4.gz rootfs4.xz
unlzma -dkv rootfs1.xz
unlzma -dkv rootfs2.xz
unlzma -dkv rootfs3.xz
unlzma -dkv rootfs4.xz
mv roofs1 rootfs1.cpio
mv roofs2 rootfs2.cpio
mv roofs3 rootfs3.cpio
mv roofs4 rootfs4.cpio
MC is able to open the cpio archives and copy it's content to the blanco root of the harddrive as user: root.
Starting with rootfs4.cpio down to rootfs1.cpio overwriting everything it comes across.
I think this is the right way ? Or isn't it ???
If I install extlinux and copy the appropriate files from the iso to the boot dir with the following slitaz.cfg:
display isolinux.msg
label slitaz
KERNEL /boot/bzImage
APPEND rw root=/dev/hda7 lang=C kmap=us vga=791 autologin
include common.cfg
Booting is fine but during loading I get a KERNEL PANIC for Slitaz can't find the root-file system.
Changing to root=UUID=code brings no difference.
I tried the rootfs.gz file from/and the slitaz-4.0-xorg-light.iso too. This one boots and loads fine but it starts with some proxy-stuff I don't want (and understand) and after a 'startx' I don't come further than "no screens found". A right xorg.conf didn't bring any difference.
Tazx needs a internet connection and I need to install a wireless connection for that. And the wireless manuals I found don't seem clear or are incomplete for installing without internet. Copying tazpkg packages packages in /var/cache/tazpkg didn't work. A local repo neither etc. So I installed xorg-server-Xfbdev with all dependencies manualy. If I want to deinstall it tazpkg says xorg-server-Xfbdev is not installed. If I want to install it again tazpkg says zorg-server-Xfbdev is already installed. A miracle ?
I am really getting a headache after more than a whole day of trying things out and not comming 1 single step further !
Sorry but I never had this experience before with Slitaz !
Is there someone to tell me what I do wrong ?
Or can Slitaz 4.0 "only run in ram" now, or what ??
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