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| author | Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Sat Mar 29 12:05:31 2008 +0100 (2008-03-29) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/en/doc/handbook/livecd.html Sat Mar 29 12:05:31 2008 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ 1.4 +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 1.5 + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 1.6 +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 1.7 +<head> 1.8 + <title>SliTaz Handbook (en) - LiveCD usage and options</title> 1.9 + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 1.10 + <meta name="description" content="slitaz LveCD usage boot options boot" /> 1.11 + <meta name="expires" content="never" /> 1.12 + <meta name="modified" content="2008-02-25 13:20:00" /> 1.13 + <meta name="publisher" content="www.slitaz.org" /> 1.14 + <meta name="author" content="Christophe Lincoln"/> 1.15 + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> 1.16 + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="book.css" /> 1.17 +</head> 1.18 +<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 1.19 + 1.20 +<!-- Header and quick navigation --> 1.21 +<div id="header"> 1.22 +<div align="right" id="quicknav"> 1.23 + <a name="top"></a> 1.24 + <a href="packages.html">Packages</a> | 1.25 + <a href="index.html">Table of contents</a> 1.26 +</div> 1.27 +<h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1> 1.28 +</div> 1.29 + 1.30 +<!-- Content. --> 1.31 +<div id="content"> 1.32 +<div class="content-right"></div> 1.33 + 1.34 +<h2><font color="#DF8F06">LiveCD usage and options</font></h2> 1.35 + 1.36 +<ul> 1.37 + <li><a href="#boot">Boot from a cdrom.</a></li> 1.38 + <li><a href="#home">Option : home=usb</a> - Use USB media as /home 1.39 + partition.</li> 1.40 + <li><a href="#home">Options : lang=XX and kmap=XX</a> - Specify language 1.41 + and keyboard.</li> 1.42 + <li><a href="#config">Option : config=<device>,<path></a> - 1.43 + Execute a script at boot time.</li> 1.44 + <li><a href="#modprobe">Option : modprobe=modules</a> - Load needed Kernel 1.45 + modules.</li> 1.46 + <li><a href="#laptop">Option : laptop</a> - Load ac and battery modules.</li> 1.47 +</ul> 1.48 + 1.49 +<a name="boot"></a> 1.50 +<h3>Boot from a cdrom</h3> 1.51 +<p> 1.52 +To boot SliTaz from a cdrom, just burn the ISO image onto a blank disc, then 1.53 +reboot your computer with the disc in your cdrom drive. The first splash image 1.54 +is powered by isolinux bootloader, you can then just press <code>ENTER</code> 1.55 +with or without any options to start system initialisation. Note that pressing 1.56 +<code>F1</code> will display help and information. SliTaz runs all 1.57 +in memory and will not damage the host installed system. When the boot 1.58 +process is finished, you can login without any password as user 1.59 +<code>hacker</code>. To become root administrator, you can use the command 1.60 +<code>su</code> with the password <code>root</code> in a XTerm window or 1.61 +the Linux console. 1.62 +</p> 1.63 +<p> 1.64 +The desktop is powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), you can get the menu by 1.65 +clicking on the screen with one of the mouse buttons. Applications are 1.66 +classified by category and are available in English. Menu, theme and wallpaper 1.67 +can all be changed to your needs/preferences by editing one single file, 1.68 +personal settings and data can be stored on USB media (Flash key, SD card, etc). 1.69 +</p> 1.70 + 1.71 +<a name="home"></a> 1.72 +<h3>Option : home=usb</h3> 1.73 +<p> 1.74 +To store your data permanently (bookmarks, downloads, Firefox Add-ons, etc), 1.75 +you need USB media with a partition formatted in <code>ext3</code> and it must 1.76 +specify <code>home=usb</code> for <code>sda1</code> (most cases) or 1.77 +<code>home=devname</code> at boot time. Note that you can also specify the 1.78 +device using the partition UUID or label by using <code>home=*</code>. Example: 1.79 +</p> 1.80 +<pre> 1.81 + slitaz home=sda1 1.82 +</pre> 1.83 +<h4>Prepare USB media</h4> 1.84 +<p> 1.85 +All USB media can formatted in the native Linux <code>ext3</code> filesystem. 1.86 +Ext3 is a journalized, stable filesystem, it allows you to keep permissions 1.87 +on all files and is much more secure than the default Windows FAT32 filesystem. 1.88 +To format USB media you have a few options: the command line with 1.89 +<code>mkfs.ext3</code>, the <code>tazusb</code> utility or graphically with Gparted. 1.90 +To get a full list of available partitions including the USB drive you can use the command 1.91 +<code>fdisk -l</code> and then format. Example: 1.92 +</p> 1.93 +<pre> 1.94 + # fdisk -l 1.95 + # tazusb format /dev/sda1 1.96 +</pre> 1.97 + 1.98 +<a name="i18n"></a> 1.99 +<h3>Options : lang=XX and kmap=XX</h3> 1.100 +<p> 1.101 +When you use the LiveCD you have two options to directly configure the system 1.102 +language and keyboard mapping, these options can be set by simply navigating to 1.103 +your country code and reloading the bootloader configuration with <code>ENTER</code>. 1.104 +To skip the language and keyboard configuration you can simply type options on the command 1.105 +line, for English/UK: 1.106 +</p> 1.107 +<pre> 1.108 + slitaz lang=en kmap=en 1.109 +</pre> 1.110 + 1.111 +<a name="config"></a> 1.112 +<h3>Option : config=<device>,<path></h3> 1.113 +<p> 1.114 +The <code>config=</code> option lets you execute a script at SliTaz boot time, 1.115 +the script can be located on external media or a HD partition. For example, the 1.116 +script can mount an ISO image on <code>/usr</code> to save memory and boot the 1.117 +LiveCD on computers with only 32 Mb of RAM. An example with a script named 1.118 +<code>slitaz.sh</code> located on the first disk and partition: 1.119 +</p> 1.120 +<pre> 1.121 + slitaz config=/dev/hda1,slitaz.sh 1.122 +</pre> 1.123 + 1.124 +<a name="modprobe"></a> 1.125 +<h3>Option : modprobe=modules</h3> 1.126 +<p> 1.127 +To load Kernel modules at boot time use the following example: 1.128 +</p> 1.129 +<pre> 1.130 + slitaz modprobe=module1,module2 1.131 +</pre> 1.132 + 1.133 +<a name="laptop"></a> 1.134 +<h3>Option : laptop</h3> 1.135 +<p> 1.136 +The option <code>laptop</code> will automatically load ac and battery Kernel 1.137 +modules, useful for laptop computers: 1.138 +</p> 1.139 +<pre> 1.140 + slitaz laptop 1.141 +</pre> 1.142 + 1.143 + 1.144 +<!-- End of content --> 1.145 +</div> 1.146 + 1.147 +<!-- Footer. --> 1.148 +<div id="footer"> 1.149 + <div class="footer-right"></div> 1.150 + <a href="#top">Top of the page</a> | 1.151 + <a href="index.html">Table of contents</a> 1.152 +</div> 1.153 + 1.154 +<div id="copy"> 1.155 + Copyright © 2008 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/">SliTaz</a> - 1.156 + <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>;<br /> 1.157 + Documentation is under 1.158 + <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License</a> 1.159 + and code is <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">valid xHTML 1.0</a>. 1.160 +</div> 1.161 + 1.162 +</body> 1.163 +</html>