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Hello everyone. I need help installing SliTaz onto my hard drive from a Live USB I made with tazusb.exe. After I ran the slitaz-installer and chose to install, not upgrade, it said, "Unable to find: rootfs.gz". I'm not sure if this is the same problem that alharaka has here http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/installation-or-liveusb-prep-cannot-find-rootfsgz-on-slitaz-30-3-in-1-disk . But I want to make sure I don't try a solution to a different problem. Also, FYI, I have not figured out how to get wi-fi to work at the moment, so I won't be able to copy and paste terminal commands from the Internet while on the laptop that has SliTaz.
Thanks in advance for the help! From what I'm able to do with SliTaz, I think it's the best Linux distro I've tried!
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download a copy of the slitaz iso file if you don't have a copy then as root execute the following: mount -o loop slitaz_iso_file /media/cdrom.
I haven't used slitaz with wifi so can't help you there, sorry.
Wow! Thanks for the quick reply, jp734!
I have a copy of the .iso file that I needed to make the Live USB, and I can use another USB to put it onto my comp. But does it matter where I put the .iso file? If so, where should I put it (i.e. which folder)?
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Copy the slitaz iso onto the root of the Live USB flash drive
Loop mount the slitaz.iso to /media/cdrom
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation SliTaz Installer Install Type
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@mojo
What do you mean by "the root of the Live USB flash drive"? Do you mean anywhere on the flash drive? I just want to make sure I have it in the right place.
Thanks for the reply!
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The root of the drive is here=> /
When a file or folder is at the root of the drive it is not inside another folder.
#mount -o loop /slitaz-3.0.iso /media/cdrom
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I've tried using that command multiple times. The mounting seems to be working fine. It doesn't give any error messages. However, when I try using the installer, it still says, ""Unable to find: rootfs.gz".
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slitaz-installer:
# Exit with error msg if no rootfs.gz found.
if [ ! -f /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz -a \
! -f /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs1.gz ]; then
ERROR_MSG="$MOUNT_CDROM_ERROR_MSG"
error_message
echo "missing: /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz" >>$LOG
exit 1
fi
Slitaz-installer can't find/media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz
Mount and verify slitaz-3.0.iso is loop mounted to /media/cdrom
#mount -o loop /slitaz-3.0.iso /media/cdrom
#ls -la /media/cdrom
Do you see boot listed?
#ls -la /media/cdrom/boot
Do you see roofs.gz listed?
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@mojo Again, thanks for the reply!
I'm not quite sure what this:
"if [ ! -f /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz -a \
! -f /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs1.gz ]; then
ERROR_MSG="$MOUNT_CDROM_ERROR_MSG"
error_message
echo "missing: /media/cdrom/boot/rootfs.gz" >>$LOG
exit 1
fi"
means, but I did do the three commands that followed. None of those commands yielded any output. So no, I do not see the boot or the rootfs.gz listed.
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Try to loop mount slitaz iso to /media/cdrom with mountbox:
Menu/System Tools/Mount devices
Click Loop button which opens Loop manager
Click the blue folder button across from File
Point/Click browse to the slitaz iso file
Highlight the iso file click the OK button
Now your back to Loop manager
The full path to the iso appears between File and the blue folder button
Click +Enable button
The iso file is now listed as /dev/loop0 device
Close out Loop manager
Mountbox=>Mount selected device on: /media/cdrom
Highlight /dev/loop0 Type iso9660 which has Label Slitaz in upper unmounted device window
Click Mount button in lower left corner
/dev/loop0 moves to lower mounted device window showing it's mounted to /media/cdrom
Try slitaz-installer
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@mojo
It worked! Thank you very much for your help.
However, I believe I installed SliTaz on the wrong partition, but I have other commitments to attend to now. So I'll post the details in a new thread in a while from now.
I appreciate all you've done!
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