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oui

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

how to recover old rolling iso´s?

As my PC's (3 PC's, brand DELL SX270 or SX280, with Pentium and Intel-Chip set) does not work in adequate screen resolution I can't contribute any more since a lot of mounth.

In may/juny 2013 they were a ISO available making no problem with very fine resolution. after that, my HD did break because of high summer temperatures and I did loose access to the old ISO as it is only on the defect HD but not on the miror.slitaz.org any more.

I find it is a very BAD solution to changer ("remplacer") new ISO's absolutely hard (without to give a time to user to load the old if they are dependant of it) before the new ISO is tested by enough users...

how is by SliTaz competent for such decisions of good or (terribly) bad organisation and can influence the rules on the use of the mirrors?

kind regards

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: how to recover old rolling iso´s?

I saved most of the rolling ISOs. I'll try to give you a link to download them on monday 7th. I won't have access to the computer where I saved them before.

oui

Member

Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 298

Re: how to recover old rolling iso´s?

avaiting above help without success, I did try to use SliTaz Rolling from web:

EXPERIMENT 1:

it goes on my PC, the resolution is good but it seems that it as problems to read my big HD (500 GB): gparted did refuse to formate the dedicated partition for the installation.

EXPERIMENT 2:

I did restart, formate in an other Linux with Gparted and restart SliTaz Rolling from web.

I did install in the dedicated and yet fresh formated partition.

In /boot I find vmlinuz-3.2-slitaz and a subdir /boot/syslinux, no initrd.

The installer did refuse to install the bootloader.

As I have already a bootloader (grub legacy) pre installed, no problem.

I did start the fresh new installation.

It starts but stops in a small interpreter.

EXPERIMENT 3:

After that, I did let the new installation as it is and did download the rolling ISO from http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso and concatenate with cat the 4 parts of initrd

and did install rolling frugal.

it did start but same result as the above full-installation: mini-interpreter only!

and the vmlinuz as an other name in boot (vmlinuz-3.2.40-slitaz) as in the full installation (vmlinuz-3.2-slitaz)