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This page describes how to make a slitaz live usb stick.
From Windows
A SliTaz Live USB installation can be performed using:
- UnetBootin
- TazUSB
Fat32 or NTFS filesystems cause slim login manager error: Failed To Execute Login Command
SliTaz runs in RAM so after booting it no longer needs the flash drive.
This enables you to reformat the flash drive to a linux filesystem and reinstall SliTaz.
- Copy the slitaz.iso to the root of the flash drive.
- Boot into SliTaz with the flash drive,login root, password: root
- Mount the flash drive,copy the slitaz.iso to /root
- Use From SliTaz instructions above to format the flash drive ext2, reinstall SliTaz using ISO file as install source.
They will work with slitaz-4.0-core.iso or another single rootfs.gz flavor found here.
Remarks when using UNetbootin
You can find UNetbootin for Windows at (this page. Note that you need to select SliTaz ISO from the Distribution list in unetbootin. To create a Live USB, select “USB Drive” under installation type. You can also choose to do a frugal install. To perform a Frugal Install, select “Hard Disk” under installation type.
Remarks when using TazUSB
The binary file TazUSB.exe is a Windows executable that installs an ISO file on a USB drive.
- download TazUSB executable for Windows: tazusb.exe (the sources are available here tazusb.nsi)
- plug in your USB drive and format it in FAT32 (formatting might not be required),
- launch TazUSB application by double-clicking on TazUSB.exe executable file,
- choose the language,
- select the destination USB drive (double-check that the letter refers to the correct drive),
- select the SliTaz iso
From Linux
From any Linux distro
* You can use unetbootin; download from here.
From Slitaz linux
Download > Burn > Boot a SliTaz ISO image
Verify the install target, format will delete everything.
$ su root # fdisk -l # tazusb format /dev/sdxx
LiveCD as install source
# tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sdxx
Iso file as install source
# tazusb gen-iso2usb slitaz.iso /dev/sdxx
Wait… and then reboot!
SliTaz 4.0 kernel panic (not booting)
In Slitaz 4.0 the rootfs file is divided into 4 parts which is a problem with tazusb.exe and UNetbootin. For SliTaz to work with tazusb.exe and Unetbootin you must download the core flavor of SliTaz consisting of a single file rootfs.
Sources
See also
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:liveusb
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