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Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Frugal install documentation

I'd like to update the following documentations:

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:frugal#frugal-install-to-microsoft-windows-partition
I've tested this with Windows XP, FAT32
[*]downloaded the latest version of Grub4dos

[*]copied grldr from the archive to HD root

[*]added the entry [c]C:\grldr="SliTaz, frugal mode"[/c] at the end of C:\boot.ini

[*]created menu.lst on HD root

Worked fine. Can someone test it with Windows 2000 and NT and confirm if it works or not and precising type partition?

For Windows Vista, 7 and 8, this should work:
[*]create a boot entry:

[c]bcdedit /create /d "GRUB for DOS" /application bootsector[/c]

should return something like this:

[c]The entry {05d33150-3fde-11dc-a457-00021cf82fb0} was successfully created[/c]
[*]then set boot parameters:

[c]bcdedit /set {id} device boot

bcdedit /set {id} path \grldr.mbr

bcdedit /displayorder {id} /addlast[/c]

where {id} is the string returned from first command
[*]copy grldr.mbr to C:\ (or wherever your boot drive is)

[*]copy grldr and create menu.lst to the root directory

Unfortunately I'm not admin on my professional Lifebook and I can't check it. Same question...

Thanks in advance
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:frugal#traditional-frugal-install
Links http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/boot/cooking/bzImage and http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/boot/cooking/rootfs.gz are old.

How to do to update them?

If not possible, I can replace them explaining how to extract bzImage and rootfs.gz from iso file.

christophe

Member

Registered: 2011-04-17

Posts: 432

Re: Frugal install documentation

From what I remember I used easybcd which includes some sort of grub; so to add the entry to boot slitaz was just trivial (the right spell is well known here), I would prefer that method rather than the command line you describe.

I remember messing a bit with W7, on a machine from work, so I would wait for confirmation of the way to go from someone who can test that process (I can't I do not have anything windows anymore except one old XP).

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Frugal install documentation

Thanks Christophe,

I wanted to give a solution from Windows but if it is easier (and it seems) with easybcd, I can write the doc with it and propose bcdedit as an alternative solution.

But I'm blocked by this damned PC!!