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I've been following SliTaz since last fall. I installed to a USB drive. It took some time to discover that SliTaz wants to be installed in a USB drive formatted with the ext3 file system. Installation to a USB formatted with FAT32 file system fails the Tux login and has many other faults. Several contributors to the forum know this but the information keeps getting lost in the shuffle and new users with a faulty USB install continue to crop up on the forum. Now I see that people installing the cooking version of SliTaz also suffer these same problems.
To the developers: is the FAT32 bug an oversight, or do you folks have issues with the legacy of this file system? Either way, why does no one put the requirement for ext3 information somewhere very obvious so that new users to USB SliTaz won't have to keep cluttering up the forum with the same old problems? Thank you for your attention.
To the forum sysop: I used to be registered before the forum switched to this new format. I was able to supply my own password but now I had to re-register and get a password assigned to me. This very complicated password is very awkward and I will never remember it and will therefore rarely log in to contribute. Thank you.
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Dear Kreeg,
You are very welcome helping this great distro. What about giving a hand on editing the documentation in "a very obvious way"... For example you could edit the USB drive guide (http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:liveusb or http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:uncommoninst). If I remember well, you first need to register (simply clic on login at the top), and that's it.
Yes, on this new bbPress forum you need to make a new account. So what? Not a big deal.
As for your password, just change it to your convenience. Really I do not see the point to complain about.
Once again, it would be really nice of you for helping.
Happy Slitaz.
:-)
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I don't believe the FAT32 support is an oversight and it's quite possible to make SliTaz run within a FAT32 USB files system as done with some frugal installs. However, it won't work if it's used as the base install file systems because FAT32 doesn't support journalling, has a tendency to become fragmented, file storage is bigger than it has to be and can't support HDD bigger than 40GB.
As for the password... I assume you haven't seen that you can change your password @ http://forum.slitaz.org/profile/kreeg/edit
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Thanks, Trixar_za, for explaining the limitations of FAT32. I have seen your efforts succeed on these frugal installs and you are a great help. My guess is that many would be happy (like myself) to reformat the USB to ext3 is they only knew that was the fix. Thanks for the password change info (you too, totoestasoeur).
SliTaz is a wonderful, speedy little OS. I feel that if more new users experienced a painless install, the better off we would all be. I hope too, that the developers are aware of Midori's repugnance for the backspace key, which causes many a crash.
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Hi,
I looked to that a bit and I dont catch it. It's was working for a long time and the have not change, at lest the part. In LiveUSB we mount the key on /home so user files are persistent.
When the option home= is used (automatic with LiveUSB but van be use with a livecd) we have 2 way to mount the device, if FAT 32:
mount /dev/$DEVID /home -o uid=1000,gid=1000
If ext3/ext4
mount /dev/$DEVID /home
All the code about mounting /home is in slitaz-boot-scripts, if someone see something usefull in:
http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/tip/etc/init.d/user-home.sh
And can help, it would be nice!
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