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I get the impression that when installing Slitaz editions 4 or 5 onto an HDD or SSD, ext3 is the preferred drive format - is that correct?
During installation ext3 appears to be the default option shown for /root, while ext2 appears to be the default for a separate /home. Is that because ext4 doesn't work well with the old kernels that Slitaz uses.
Also, I notice when I dual-boot with Ubuntu, Ubuntu's grubscreen recognises Slitaz as an 'unknown Linux distribution' - it doesn't list it by it's name.
Hi mikey777,
get the impression that when installing Slitaz editions 4 or 5 onto an HDD or SSD, ext3 is the preferred drive format - is that correct?
I use ext4 exclusively for my partitions. Only cons is the message on boot that it can't mount my ext4 as ext3 and as ext2. All works fine.
The author of SliTaz stated the ext2 is better because it haven't journal. A doubtful advantage, as for me.
Ubuntu's grubscreen recognises Slitaz as an 'unknown Linux distribution' - it doesn't list it by it's name.
Looks like it search for one or for some files describing the distribution. Something in [c]/etc[/c], most likely [c]/etc/lsb-release[/c]. You can write something like this to your [c]/etc/lsb-release[/c] and check Ubuntu's grubscreen again if it recognize it or not. Only change "6.0" to "5.0" to follow you use SliTaz-5.0 Rolling and make your own DISTRIB_CODENAME because SliTaz-5.0 haven't it own.
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Thanks Alexej for your advice - as a result, I've reinstalled 5-rolling 64-bit on ext4. The nice thing with Slitaz is that re-installation only takes less than 5 minutes!
I was interested in the gparted screenshot.
Looking at it, have you dual-booted 64-bit with 64-bit next, sharing many of the common system file and packages in /media/exxt ?
have you dual-booted 64-bit with 64-bit next, sharing many of the common system file and packages in /media/exxt ?
No. SliTaz Rolling is the only system. Plus some ISO images and RootFS to experiment with "frugal" systems. "exxt" contains some music, video, photos, repos, etc.
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"Aleksey: looks like it search for one or for some files describing the distribution.
Something in /etc, most likely /etc/lsb-release.
You can write something like this to your /etc/lsb-release"
I had a look at the file system: "/etc/lsb-release" doesn't exist on my installed Slitaz!
This could be because when I installed Slitaz to SSD, I chose to install grub to Slitaz's partition, rather than to dev/sda. I'll see if I can write an /etc/lsb-release file in leafpad. I'll have a look at Ubuntu's /etc/lsb/release to get an idea on how to write this.
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