Comments on: Howto: Install a console-only Slitaz system http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-46339 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:31:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-46339 Hello !

Slitaz base unable to install in VirtualBox ! And so real install to hd and ruin system ??? And so if ruin, repeating procedure to ruin again and so reinventing procucedure again and again gaining negative experience in using Linux !!!!

With Linux is nothing easy !!! To many problems with Linux !

]]> By: Back to Debian, at 133Mhz and 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-46039 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:18:41 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-46039 [...] admit that my first stop after Crux was to try the same stunt with Slitaz, console-only. And it worked well except for some reason, it too was having network [...]

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-42006 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:50:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-42006 Aah… so near yet so far…

Well, snd_sb8 with, as it happens, the same irq and dma flags, got the sound card recognised :)

Around the same time, a reboot with yenta_socket and pcnet_cs (not pd6729) and the network sprang into life, flashing green lights and all! Wow, so quickly tazpkg recharge, tazpkg upgrade (brought in a lot of stuff), reboot and…
no modules. :(

modprobe yenta_socket (and pretty much any other module) gives “no such file”. lsmod shows no modules in use, and modprobe -l returns nothing at all. It looks as if my upgrade, which included a new kernel, might have left out most of the modules, but now with no network all I can do is start all over again from the CD I suppose, or maybe try to import something with a usb stick from another box…

Taken along with another issue of [kernel panic - forced shutdown - forced fsck] about every other boot (which I’d been hoping the upgrade would fix), I’m beginning to wonder if Slitaz (or my abilities with it) is up to a 16MB box, even CLI only. Maybe I’ll see if I have any better luck with DSL.

]]> By: Otto http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41970 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:25:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41970 slitaz-installer gave me this error:

Unable to find rootfs.gz

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41907 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:18:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41907 Thank you – several things there I can try. :)

I’m not aiming for a graphic interface here: once the cards are working I’ll hack out all the X-type stuff.

Fair play tp Microsoft: Windows 98 did work on this machine – not snappy but usable. I could reinstall that if all fails, but having to install another driver every time I get a new USB stick was a considerable drag.

Fair play to Slitaz also: on a 260MHz Celeron/ 192MB box it’s very quick and light – boots to a nice-looking GUI using a mere 25MB of memory, urxvt and leafpad come up in a flash; quicker than my 2.8GHz/500MB/Crunchbang main box!

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41904 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:24:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41904 The Slitaz graphical systems I had running on my Pentium, back when it only had 16Mb of RAM, were also torturous, so I don’t know if there’s going to be much in the way of improvement in that category. If you drop back to a distro that relies only on GTK1.2 and X applications it might fare better, but then you’re in the domain of things like the last DSL release, or maybe Tiny Core or Micro Core.

I have gotten some strange network card behavior in Slitaz too. I know in a piggyback installation, I had to write in the modules for the PCMCIA subsystem and network card (one was yenta, the other pd6729) and take out a lot of the other modules and startup services. For the sound card, check the BIOS for dma and irq settings, and then apply them as flags to the modprobe command for your sound card (probably snd-sb8 or something if it’s like mine; check modprobe -l | grep sb).

Remember that some of the old, pre-CardBus laptops used the Cirrus 6729 (I think that was it) PCMCIA stuff, so if you modprobe pd6729, the entire networking system can sometimes pop into place. If you’re using a CardBus card though, the kernel should spit out a message telling you it’s unsupported. And I’ve noticed that most of my wireless cards are useless with Slitaz until I install linux-wireless … it’s the old Catch-22: No network access until you have network access. :roll:

Aside from that though, I don’t know if I have any hints … :|

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41901 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:01:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41901 Hmm… much delayed progress report:
*) The Slitaz “base” iso wouldn’t boot with 16MB of RAM. It hangs at “unpacking initramfs…” (boots fine on another box with more memory).
*) The “loram-cdrom” iso will boot to a cli (you have to login as “root”, not “tux”) but of course startx is a bad idea for a live system on 16MB…
*) I was able to install from “slitaz-loram-cdrom” with slitaz-installer though, provided the disk was previously formatted with parted, for example. (The installer’s formatting doesn’t seem to work – the first time I tried I ended up with a linux os on a FAT16 partition. :( ) However this installs a graphic system with Slim taking you straight to Xvesa, which was pure torture. Opening any window took five minutes and another minute to close it again! For now, I’ve added “screen=text” to the kernel boot line which stops X from starting up, and disabled hal and dbus daemons in /etc/rcS.conf. Eventually I suppose all the extraneous stuff can be uninstalled to get back to something like the “base” system.
*) Right now, however I’m stuck trying to get access to the internet. The two PCI LAN cards I’ve tried work OK in another box, but here don’t even show in lspci so I don’t really know where to go. Enabling modules yenta_socket and pcnet_cs haven’t helped, though changing a BIOS setting at least got a couple of “cardbus bridge” mentions in lspci. The final aim is to have sound as I want to use this box as a music player, but so far the sound card is undetectable. (It should be some kind of Soundblaster clone I think.)

So getting those two PCI cards working is the wall I’m up against. (Any hints would be most appreciated of course… :) )

]]> By: mentallaxative http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41325 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:21:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41325 Oh, my goodness. Slitaz in text-only? And I thought Slitaz couldn’t get any smaller.

]]> By: deadwait http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41258 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:55:23 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41258 hi , you can download it here
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/2.0/flavors/

]]> By: cannonfodder http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41245 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:22:54 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/#comment-41245 Also a Slitaz fan.

Currently running Tiny Core 1.2 or 1.3 on a Pentium 1 166MHz laptop with 48MBs of RAM.

Sadly, newer versions of Tiny Core have much increased requirements. Micro Core is not working out satisfactorily on test machine. Not sure if the Tiny Core concept is the best approach given my objective for this laptop anyway.

I’m not asking for much out of this machine. I want it to act as LAMP server for my 3 PC intranet. It has to be CLI and have a static IP. I have to able to ssh into it & has to work well with NFS.

My question is, what iso did you use for your CLI Slitaz install?

I took a quick look at the Slitaz web site and only found stable and cooking isos.

Did you just use one of these or did I just not find the ‘base flavor’ you refer to?

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