Boot SliTaz 4.0 the 3.0 way!

Update

Use the core ISO which has only one rootfs to bypass all the pain.

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I posted about this tiny USB-bootable Linux-based OS in this post earlier. The latest version SliTaz 4.0 is released just a few hours back! Available for download from the following locations:

Download page
Direct ISO link

Will be trying it out tonight! 😉

Update

If you are installing it on USB using Unetbootin and FAT32 as filesystem:

1. I installed SliTaz 4.0 using Unetbootin and I was not able to boot due to kernel faults initially. SliTaz 4.0 has split rootfs into 4 parts. To get past the kernel fault add the following entry as the first one in syslinux.cfg file in the USB:

   label ubnentry0
   menu label slitaz
   kernel /boot/bzImage
   append initrd=/boot/rootfs.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal laptop slitaz home=sdb1

   After “append” add any other laptop specific kernel option you may need. In boot menu select the newly created menu – slitaz.

2. Append all the rootfsx.gz files under /boot into one using the following command:

   # cat $(ls -r rootfs*.gz) > rootfs.gz

3. I was not able to boot into tux but I didn’t waste any time on that as I prefer root login. The default password for root is root.

Thats it! Enjoy the speed! Don’t forget to install Pidgin for chat and SMPlayer for multimedia.

Update

If you are a purist like me 😉 and love to save every byte possible then you may remove tazweb. If you get alarmed to find that clicking on “Package Manager” does nothing:

1. Run:

   # tazpanel start //will start tazpanel or will tell you if it's running
   Starting TazPanel web server on port 82...      [ OK ]

2. Open this local link in your browser:

   http://tazpanel:82/pkgs.cgi?list

Change the DNS server IP in SliTaz

Edit /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script and add the following line just below the first line:

dns="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"

Restart the network using  /etc/init.d/network.sh.

Save downloads to USB directly

It’s a pain to remember to save downloaded files every time. Here’s a simple tip. Create a directory in SliTaz USB and name it Downloads. Now create symlink to the directory in your home directory –

# ln -s /home/Downloads/ ./Downloads

Change settings of your browser, transmission etc. to save the files in /root/Downloads. Access your downloads at ease and no need to save them twice.

My fonts in Firefox looked horrible so I switched to Opera on SliTaz. Looks cool! To enable wireless on SliTaz try this post.

Another screenshot of my SliTaz Desktop

I will be logged out of Ubuntu for a while.

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