Manual slitaz live cd

With the next step you have the option to install the GRUB boot-loader and enable a Windows dual-boot. GRUB is capable of booting almost any kind of operating system and can be configured through a human-readable text file; changes to this file are instant and do not require any additional commands to take effect. First boot is like the LiveCD, you will be prompted for options. Future reboots will not prompt you anymore for configuration details, but all the values can be changed either manually or with the project tools such as tazlocale or tazx.

SliTaz can also be installed 'by hand' from the command line. Firstly, prepare a target partition and mount it. With a target partition prepared and the installation media made accessible, we need to copy the files from the media into the target partition and then extract the compressed file-system rootfs.

Now the necessary files are present, change cd to the target directory and decompress the file-system. This is done with the lzma and cpio utilities:. That's it; SliTaz is installed! GRUB uses a single configuration file named menu. The menu. In this example, the Windows installation resides on the first hard disk hd0 and the first partition the second 0 within it.

This may need modification to reflect individual cases. If it were the other way around and SliTaz proceeded Windows for instance, the line would read:. It is not always necessary to format a partition. Applications can also be accessed through the menu supplied by LXpanel. Xinitrc file. All services have been changed and improved since 3. This includes a community board, wiki based documentation, a forum and a bug tracker. Now developers, artists, documentation writers, bug reporters and anybody with a good suggestion can help others, get involved and work together to improve the project.

The SliTaz community network SCN , website and repos all combine the same graphical layout for easy navigation. To upgrade the system you first need to boot the Stable LiveCD, launch the installer from the command line or Tazpanel, select upgrade and then specify the partition or configuration file containing the system that you want to update. The installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not present on the CD from the mirror.

When this has finished you can reboot with your new version of SliTaz. To upgrade a 3. SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website, develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Release Notes en Welcome to SliTaz 4. More than commits in the wok More than packages added to database Boot in 10 seconds or less on a very recent machine Centralized configuration with the new control panel New build tool which lets you create SliTaz packages in a minute New rolling release ISO is built after each package cook 4 Distros in one on the LiveCD The Russian dolls New graphical installer and updater New GUI Boxes and tools to create Live systems Web boot improved: boot.

And you should be root super user. If you copy shadow files from Live CD to your system, then you'll get default passwords password root for root user, and empty password for tux user.

Not bad if you copy current shadow files somewhere before you edit or substitute them. You can edit files manually. Each line begins with user name login. Password contains between first and second colons ":" symbols in the encoded form. RSS feed for this topic. Twitter Facebook Distrowatch Wikipedia Flattr. Username Password.