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So I have been experimenting with both Slitaz 3.0 and 4.0 for awhile now from live usb and am very impressed with how they run on my newer pc and especially my old laptop. My only problem with the distro is the lack of a media player such as mplayer or gxine. To try and solve this issue, I did this:
1. I made a live usb of slitaz justx (3.0 or 4.0)
2. I booted the usb from a virtual machine on my macbook air. (my only computer with internet access).
3. I downloaded and installed gxine.
4. I ran the commmand "tazusb writefs gzip" to create a new rootfs.gz (with sound and graphics settings removed) containing my new application.
5. To make sure eveything is working properly, I rebooted from the usb in the virtual machine. Everything went as planned and gxine is installed and working fine.
6. I plugged the usb into my old laptop with a 900 mhz cpu and 256 mb ram (the same as the vm)
7. I boot up the old pc.
This is where it all goes wrong. I have no idea why, but the older computer will only boot into command line mode! This makes absolutely no sense to me since even this old pc will comforably run even the full 3.0 and 4.0 isos and my custom filesystem is only around 25 mb. I should have plenty of ram! Maybe I am overlooking something, but i have spent many hours trying to solve this issue just so i can get a media player running on this old machine. I have included photos of the last 2 screens I see (hopefully they will be helpful). I am totally new to this distro and really just want to get this working. Any suggestions would be great as this old laptop will be my only computer this summer. Thanks!
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Maybe I should try making a custom iso from a live cd?
Why not install to your old laptop, download the tazpkg, transfer to laptop & install it on there, I'm pretty sure that should work.
N.B. I haven't used SliTaz a lot, but sure I read it in the forum somewhere.
Mplayer has way to many dependancies to install manually each time. Also, my laptops hard drive is failing.
OK, I see where you're coming from now.
Could you try 'nomodeset' in the grub kernel boot line.
(Usually works on Debian based systems if your graphics card is a problem.)
Okay I'll give that a try. Thanks.
Hi unicornswag
But a standard iso-live work on to examined pc?
Another thing...
I think the problem is in the penultimate line of the first photo
Home as specified Been to 04ab-17e1
probably in the new pc is identified with a different number ....
I have created more cooking iso, but I on all used tazlito writeiso lzma, and first these was removing from installation all file detected at the first boot.
This is an little list the file interested
rm -f /var/lib/sound-card-driver
rm -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
rm -f /etc/asound.state
rm -f /etc/X11/screen.conf
rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
rm -f /etc/locale.conf
rm -f /etc/keymap.conf
rm -f /var/lib/detected-modules
rm -f /var/lib/detected-usb-modules
rm -r /var/log/*
rm -r /home/slitaz
and restore from original iso this file
cp fstab /etc/fstab
cp network.conf /etc/network.conf
cp rcS.conf /etc/rcS.conf
cp -a local.sh /etc/init.d/local.sh
cp -aR xorg.conf.d /etc/X11/
Also it possible some difference in case of version 3 4-and stable cooking or rolling
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Thank you so much Gibor! You pointed out the issue with the home specification. To solve this, I set home as "sdb1" (the name of the usb drive). Now my custom distro is working perfectly with mplayer installed. I don't know how I didn't figure this out earlier but thanks for the help! Now my dinosaur of a laptop will be useful for many years to come 
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