SliTaz DocLive system
A SliTaz image boots a complete live system: it is loaded into memory and runs from there, without touching your disks. You can try SliTaz, rescue a machine, or install from it.
Boot menu
The x86_64 images show a graphical GRUB menu with the
SliTaz theme: the first entry
starts SliTaz with a US keyboard, the Keyboard layout submenu
starts it with another keyboard (French, Swiss, Belgian, German, Spanish,
Italian). To add boot options, select an entry, press e, add
the options at the end of the linux line and press
Ctrl+X.
The i486 images show an isolinux menu with a Languages submenu setting the language, keyboard and time zone together, a help screen, a memory test and Check media, which verifies the image. Press Tab on an entry to edit its options.
After a few seconds the desktop starts, or a text login on the base
images. The options of the running system are in
/proc/cmdline.
Users and passwords
The live system logs in the user tux automatically. tux
has no password. The root password is root: type
su in a terminal to become root, or give it when a
graphical tool asks for it. On the desktop, the welcome window lets you
install software, change settings and install SliTaz.
Boot options
| Option | Effect |
|---|---|
lang=fr_FR | System language |
kmap=fr-latin1 | Console keyboard; the X layout follows it |
tz=Europe/Paris | Time zone; guessed from the keyboard when not set, else UTC |
user=name | Name of the live user instead of tux |
home=sdb1 | Use a partition as /home, see below |
screen=text | Do not start the desktop, text login |
video=1024x768-32 | Kernel video mode |
sound=no | Remove the sound drivers, for machines where they hang |
modprobe=mod1,mod2 | Load these kernel modules at boot |
font=ter-v14n | Console font |
mount | Mount the Linux partitions (MBR type 83) found on /mnt/<partition> |
noswap | Do not use the swap partitions found |
console=ttyS0 | Use a serial console |
config=/dev/sdb1,script.sh | Run a shell script from a partition (device, UUID= or LABEL=) at boot |
reprise | Rescue mode: run the reprise repair tool before the desktop |
autologin | Log the user in without the login screen (set on the live entries) |
Keeping your data
By default nothing is saved: the live system lives in memory and is
gone at shutdown. To keep your files and settings, give it a partition
to use as /home, on a disk or a second USB key, with its
device name, label or UUID:
home=sdb1 home=MYDATA home=0123-4567
The partition can be ext4, or FAT, exFAT or NTFS. With
home=, you can add swap=512 to create a 512 MB
swap file on it. Packages placed in /home/boot/packages/
on that partition are installed at each boot.
For a real system on a USB key, with packages and settings kept, install SliTaz on the key.
Memory
The live system lives in memory: once started, it takes about 45 MB for SliTaz Base, 150 to 200 MB for Core and 450 to 530 MB for Firefox, plus what your programs use. An installed system runs from the disk and needs much less.