Re: [SliTaz] VDI?

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Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 12:22 -0400, Daryl Kuchay a écrit :
> Erjo,
Hi,

> 
> Very cool! Thank you again!
> 
> Using tazlito and just spun my first gen-distro....
> It finished with a message about not having isolinux binary. I added
> syslinux-3.82 to the package list but see from message that its not
> in the v4.0 package set. 
> 
> Would my workaround for this be to download the package manually and
> place it within ~/4.0/packages directory?
> 
Yes it will.

> Assuming I would do this with anything needed here including kernel? 

Yes we can :)

> from within kernel build directory “make tazpkg”... I recompiled last
> night but want to test before finalizing config. 
> 
> Oh #@! yes I see conversion tools within tazpkg this is also worth
> celebrating. 
> 
> Conversions will make short work of my extras for TS calibration. 
> 
> Would it be recommendable to change the flavor away from “core” if I
> am adding things that would not be in standard core offering? Adding
> xinput_calibrator, inputattach and a few others. 
> 
> Thank you again!
That's fun to play with SliTaz again :)

+Erjo

> 
> 
> > On Apr 30, 2020, at 11:17 AM, SLITAZ - Erjo <erjo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 09:05 -0400, Daryl Kuchay a écrit :
> > > Thank you!
> > Your welcome :)
> > 
> > > Also was able to get v4 into VM last night. 
> > > 
> > > Within V4, I see grub-0.9x in packages and I may be able to use
> > > that.
> > > Just font know if Slitaz is meant to start from grub only when
> > > installed in non frugal mode? I want to transfer the usb stick
> > > contents to the internal 500mb hdd and setup boot there.
> > > 
> > No. You can use rootfs.gz as an initrd fs (
> > http://doc.slitaz.org/fr:handbook:liveusb?s[]=grub)
> > 
> > # /boot/grub/menu.lst: GRUB boot loader configuration.
> > #
> > 
> > # Change the colors.
> > color yellow/brown light-green/black
> > 
> > # For booting SliTaz from a cdrom or USB media (LiveRAM).
> > #
> > title    SliTaz GNU/Linux (Cooking) (Kernel 2.6.22.9)
> > kernel    /boot/bzImage root=/dev/null vga=771 home=usb
> > initrd    /boot/rootfs.gz
> > 
> > 
> > > I can usb these files in if needed. Ill try to gen-distro on both
> > > platforms once I get my packages into vm and get my lists
> > > organized.
> > > Thank you for the tip!
> > 
> > I would prefer using tazusb with writefs option. And replace the
> > old
> > rootfs.gz files by the new one.
> > 
> > writefs        $(_ 'Write the current filesystem to rootfs.gz.
> > Supported compression: lzma, gzip, none.')
> > 
> > You can even modify syslinux.cfg to boot on both old and new
> > rootfs.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > +Erjo
> > 
> > 
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