Re: [SliTaz] VDI?

[Daryl Kuchay <daryl.kuchay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I started on Linux 20 years ago with Suse 7.4. Slitaz is AMAZING! and causing me to feel younger. Just flashed my custom iso to usb and I have never seen something move so fast on target hardware (geode-gx2). Gui not working yet and I have lots to do but I have to say, I cant imagine how much work this is on the back end. Thank you to all who contribute!!!!!

If I needed a custom xorg.conf is there a way to preload it? 

Erjo, may I ask for one layer more detail on setting up boot in a way that supports rewriting rootfs? I see the logic but unsure where to apply? 

Phoenix, I apologize if it seems that I am talking over your request. Please do indicate your problems. I am new to slitaz but possibly someone on cc can help? 

DarylK

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 5:10 PM, Eric Joseph-Alexandre <erjo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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