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newbie

Member

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 3

Issues executing Gparted and installing Slitaz onto HD

Hi, I am new to Slitaz and not very knowledgeable when it comes to Linux distros.

I am trying to install Slitaz 4.0 from live CD on the HD of an old computer that previously contained Lubuntu.

Managed to launch Gparted only once, from the TazPanel and formatted the main partition to ext3, but then couldn't disable the previous Lubuntu swap partition which I wanted to remove. And Gparted won't start anymore, I also tried launching it from terminal, it just won't open.

The other issue is if I do decide to leave the partitions as they are and go through with the installation I get a

Warning: /dev/cdrom: Mount failed

Error 3 Invalid source

followed by

"Installation complete. You can now restart."

And when I do restart without the live CD I am left with a machine that doesn't load any OS: when it boots I get the black screen with message:

error:file not found

grub rescue>

which I am assuming means my formatting succeeded, but not the installation.

I have had a look at other posts in the forum but still unable to complete the install.

Where am I going wrong?

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Issues executing Gparted and installing Slitaz onto HD

A swap partition is a swap partition no matter which Linux installed it. Giving us the error you get in terminal while trying to run gparted may help too.

As for the installer, it needs to find the CD before it can be installed. With systems with more than one CD/DVD drive this means putting it in the right one. With me it only works if I put it in my second drive. Another method is to loop mount the iso image to the device as root: mount -o loop,ro slitaz-4.iso /media/cdrom

Neo_Pt

Member

Registered: 2012-08-06

Posts: 33

Re: Issues executing Gparted and installing Slitaz onto HD

Hi newbie,

Have you already tried:

# su to root

# swapoff -a

and then run GParted ?

Cheers !

newbie

Member

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 3

Re: Issues executing Gparted and installing Slitaz onto HD

@Trixar_za

Many thanks for the clarification re: mounting CD drive. I managed to install on the HD thanks to your hint plus other info I found on the web.

I had however to leave the swap partition that had been installed by the previous distro I was using, Lubuntu.

GParted: it only seems to launch, meaning that the window flashes open for about a second but then it disappears without reporting any error messages.

@Neo_Pt

Thanks, I have just tried your commands but GParted keeps behaving as above.

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Issues executing Gparted and installing Slitaz onto HD

You may want to run gparted from command line to see why gparted won't start. As Neo_Pt mentioned above after swapoff from command line you should be able to delete the swap partition if that is what you want to do.