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Installation or LiveUSB Prep: Cannot Find rootfs.gz on Slitaz 3.0 3-in-1 Disk

Sorry if this is a newbish question, but the Google did not lead me to a proper answer yet, and I have only checked the formers a little bit.

In short, I tried to install on an EeePC 701 (Surf 2G) at home a few days back.  When I had done so, slitaz-installer failed because it was unable to find rootfs.gz.  I am not surprised because there is not one, but a three-stage collection (rootfs1.gz, rootfs2.gz, etc).

For obvious reasons I encountered the same issue with tazusb with the following command.

[c]su -c "tazusb gen-iso2usb /home/tux/Documents/slitaz-3.0-3in1.iso /dev/sda1 # Pushed the ISO to a running VirtualBox install via SCP from host to guest before[/c]

I get the following error.

[c]Unable to mount iso or to find a filesystem on it (rootfs.gz).[/c]

So how do I opt for the other rootfs files in the boot menu, and which of the three is suitable (if at all)?

Thanks in advance.  This is a very cool and powerful distro, as evidenced by my two minutes of using it.  I am very impressed.  Keep up the good work guys.

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Installation or LiveUSB Prep: Cannot Find rootfs.gz on Slitaz 3.0 3-in-1 Disk

The bad news: SliTaz 3.0 tools did not support well many-in-1 flavors

tazusb fix: http://hg.slitaz.org/tazusb/rev/b916bbd04ba2

slitaz-installer fix: http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-tools/rev/18e9aa75b89b

The good news: You can download them

http://hg.slitaz.org/tazusb/raw-file/tip/tazusb

http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-tools/raw-file/tip/installer/slitaz-installer