Old laptop, newish Linux not totally happy... 1191

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:16:30 +0200, Robert Heller

Read my comments about alternate ways to test Slax below.

I definitely agree with you, especially, as you say, this is an IPod equiv. You want it just to work with as little fuss and muss as possible. But I find it hard to believe that running something equivalent to RH criteria. Good luck not spending a lot of your time learning to fix this and adding new functionality. Take my last statement with a grain of salt if you are truly an expert using RH and its derivatives. If you are not an expert, then IMO, you went right for the sledgehammer when you needed to drive a nail.

Oops. There is the start of the time sink. Okay, just for grins, I tested Slax on VMWare without using the CDROM. It does seem like a non-sequiter that a live CD could run without a CD, but it does work. I know you didn't ask for this, but I am posting the results here anyway (because I want to.) I didn't do extensive tests with this, and I'm not sure if changes are saved in a readonly or a read-write location, but it does work. Here's a screenshot:

Notice what devices are mounted:dev-hda1 has the filesystem as laid out on the Slax Live CD. When all of the files are copied it consumes less than 200M.

I used this page for a hint:

I use grub as the loader, so I adjusted that as shown below.

This is the grub stanza to load Slax: #begin grub stanza breastle Slax root (hd0,0) kernelboot-vmlinuz rw root=-dev-ram0 init=linuxrc loadramdisk=1 ramdisksize=4444 maxloop=255 initrdboot-initrd.gz #end grub stanza

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