Basic problems with using slitaz-cooking

["Victor Schneider, Ph. D." <vtailor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a request for a reply. I read French, German, Italian, Dutch, 
and some other languages, if someone does want to write.

I finally managed to get the usb version of slitaz to work by going to the 
command line version of the installer. I also had some major problems with 
my computer bios until I found the right settings for booting. Even with 
that, installing the file system version of slitaz-cooking on another 8 
gigabyte usb stick using the graphic installer gets to a grub boot error 
after stage 1.5.

I found the list of installer programs on your package icon, and I used it 
to get flash and realplayer. Going to any web site that supports flash 
crashes firefox. Not complaining, merely reporting. If I start firefox in an 
su xterm window, xterm reports that firefox has segfaulted at the flash web 
page. I got the same segfault on a Hewlett-Packard presario with 1.6 mhz 
celeron M and a desktop that uses an intel motherboard with dual atom 1.6 
64-bit cpus. In other words, the segfault occurs on 32-bit and 64-bit cpus.

Real player using the slitaz download script does indeed install, plays 
sound flawlessly, but refuses to display video. On the other slackware linux 
system (RIPLinuX file system on a 4 gb usb stick) that I use, real player 
can also be unwilling to show video, but does eventually do so, if you 
"zoom" to full screen. I'm impressed that it runs on slitaz at all. The 
other linux system I use has the pango library, but realplay insists I am 
missing a pango shared file, until I do a suspicious symlink on a different 
pango library file. Possibly the download script for slitaz is using the 
"wrong" pango library file also.

I was having an installation-script orgy using my newly working usb slitaz, 
until one of the scripts apparently tainted the ethernet connection of my 
dsl to ethernet modem and stopped communications. Merely connecting to my 
fussy modem under any linux is a problem, and slitaz connects easily,

I know this is beta software, and I am really impressed by its potential and 
the work already done. I hope to work with upcoming versions.


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