X-Slacko Slim 4.4r49 (unique, stable, and flexible)
It still doesn't work, but you are on the right track - probably. The error messages have changed.
Goes straight into 'Loading vmlinuz.. EDD: Errorreading sector 77771
...more error messages, then
'Decompressing Linux...
Xz-compressed data is corrupt
-- System halted
I'm no expert in coding, but it would seem expedient to compare r57 with r54 which works perfectly!
Goes straight into 'Loading vmlinuz.. EDD: Errorreading sector 77771
...more error messages, then
'Decompressing Linux...
Xz-compressed data is corrupt
-- System halted
I'm no expert in coding, but it would seem expedient to compare r57 with r54 which works perfectly!
Well in that case @Sage, Can you try these procedures (if it is okay to you):
1. Boot x-slacko slim r54
2. Mount a partition and make a folder named puppylivecdbuild
3. Copy initrd.xz from r54 disc to puppylivecdbuild folder and unmount the r54 disc
4. Mount x-slacko slim r57 and copy all the contents to puppylivecdbuild folder except initrd.xz
5. Run Puppy Remaster CD and select the partition where puppylivecdbuild folder is located
6. If the remaster asked to use it again. Click YES.
7. Follow other instructions until you reached to burn to disc or make an image file. (Its upon to you to make an image first and burn to disc or burn to disc right away)
8. Then test the disc that you created by booting it.
1. Boot x-slacko slim r54
2. Mount a partition and make a folder named puppylivecdbuild
3. Copy initrd.xz from r54 disc to puppylivecdbuild folder and unmount the r54 disc
4. Mount x-slacko slim r57 and copy all the contents to puppylivecdbuild folder except initrd.xz
5. Run Puppy Remaster CD and select the partition where puppylivecdbuild folder is located
6. If the remaster asked to use it again. Click YES.
7. Follow other instructions until you reached to burn to disc or make an image file. (Its upon to you to make an image first and burn to disc or burn to disc right away)
8. Then test the disc that you created by booting it.
Last edited by mistfire on Sat 30 Sep 2017, 05:12, edited 1 time in total.
Hi Mistfire,
Hey, have a philosphical question, sort of: how small (in ISO mb-size) do you think your X-Slacko-Slim could get if only Midori, a window manager, a file manager, a terminal, and PPM (in case anyone wants anything more) and noting else included except that which is/was necessary to bootup and get to the desktop run stuff? How small would it be, you think?
Reason I ask? I (and a few friends) have a lot of USB sticks lying around, that are somewhat old but still good. The problem is that they are all 125MB in size, which in reality works out to about ~112-115MB after you've formatted with fat and/or ext.
We are using currently ThinSlacko5.3.3t (from Micko), but it (and its components) are getting long in the tooth since stuff is dated from 2013. Is there any chance one lazy Sunday I could get you to give a go at your X-slacko-slim and release an ULTRA-X-Slacko-Slim? I think I wouldn't be the only one on murga interested in this. In the past, ThinSlacko (and Unicorn, by Phil) were two very, very popular releases on murga when it came to barebones pups that included what I listed above (essentially, it is an ultra-small browsing pup and that's it). Both were/are about 80-90mb ISOs, and were/are just fantastic. But like I said, they're getting a bit dated.
Hey, have a philosphical question, sort of: how small (in ISO mb-size) do you think your X-Slacko-Slim could get if only Midori, a window manager, a file manager, a terminal, and PPM (in case anyone wants anything more) and noting else included except that which is/was necessary to bootup and get to the desktop run stuff? How small would it be, you think?
Reason I ask? I (and a few friends) have a lot of USB sticks lying around, that are somewhat old but still good. The problem is that they are all 125MB in size, which in reality works out to about ~112-115MB after you've formatted with fat and/or ext.
We are using currently ThinSlacko5.3.3t (from Micko), but it (and its components) are getting long in the tooth since stuff is dated from 2013. Is there any chance one lazy Sunday I could get you to give a go at your X-slacko-slim and release an ULTRA-X-Slacko-Slim? I think I wouldn't be the only one on murga interested in this. In the past, ThinSlacko (and Unicorn, by Phil) were two very, very popular releases on murga when it came to barebones pups that included what I listed above (essentially, it is an ultra-small browsing pup and that's it). Both were/are about 80-90mb ISOs, and were/are just fantastic. But like I said, they're getting a bit dated.
belham2 the actual current size of X-Slacko Slim is 150+ Mb (minus uefi boot image which is 10 Mb). If gstreamer, mplayer, midori browser, lynx, bluez, and some kernel modules is removed. It will go down to 100Mb or lower. You can make your own a smaller version of X-Slacko Slim by using the build kit that I released alongside with X-Slacko the link was in the first post of the thread.belham2 wrote:Hi Mistfire,
Hey, have a philosphical question, sort of: how small (in ISO mb-size) do you think your X-Slacko-Slim could get if only Midori, a window manager, a file manager, a terminal, and PPM (in case anyone wants anything more) and noting else included except that which is/was necessary to bootup and get to the desktop run stuff? How small would it be, you think?
Reason I ask? I (and a few friends) have a lot of USB sticks lying around, that are somewhat old but still good. The problem is that they are all 125MB in size, which in reality works out to about ~112-115MB after you've formatted with fat and/or ext.
We are using currently ThinSlacko5.3.3t (from Micko), but it (and its components) are getting long in the tooth since stuff is dated from 2013. Is there any chance one lazy Sunday I could get you to give a go at your X-slacko-slim and release an ULTRA-X-Slacko-Slim? I think I wouldn't be the only one on murga interested in this. In the past, ThinSlacko (and Unicorn, by Phil) were two very, very popular releases on murga when it came to barebones pups that included what I listed above (essentially, it is an ultra-small browsing pup and that's it). Both were/are about 80-90mb ISOs, and were/are just fantastic. But like I said, they're getting a bit dated.
Thanks, Mistfire. To be honest, I completely overlooked that you had the option for us to give a build a try. I just downloaded everything, setting it up now as "pristine" 'frugal' install, and am going to give it a go. My problem is that (in woof-CE and Ddog builds also), I always end up cutting too much out, not realizing it is needed for getting to the desktop, or setting the network up, or running the browser, things like that. I am good in the other direction----I can make builds nice & fat & dress 'em up purdy . Wish me luck.mistfire wrote:belham2 the actual current size of X-Slacko Slim is 150+ Mb (minus uefi boot image which is 10 Mb). If gstreamer, mplayer, midori browser, lynx, bluez, and some kernel modules is removed. It will go down to 100Mb or lower. You can make your own a smaller version of X-Slacko Slim by using the build kit that I released alongside with X-Slacko the link was in the first post of the thread.belham2 wrote:Hi Mistfire,
Hey, have a philosphical question, sort of: how small (in ISO mb-size) do you think your X-Slacko-Slim could get if only Midori, a window manager, a file manager, a terminal, and PPM (in case anyone wants anything more) and noting else included except that which is/was necessary to bootup and get to the desktop run stuff? How small would it be, you think?
Reason I ask? I (and a few friends) have a lot of USB sticks lying around, that are somewhat old but still good. The problem is that they are all 125MB in size, which in reality works out to about ~112-115MB after you've formatted with fat and/or ext.
We are using currently ThinSlacko5.3.3t (from Micko), but it (and its components) are getting long in the tooth since stuff is dated from 2013. Is there any chance one lazy Sunday I could get you to give a go at your X-slacko-slim and release an ULTRA-X-Slacko-Slim? I think I wouldn't be the only one on murga interested in this. In the past, ThinSlacko (and Unicorn, by Phil) were two very, very popular releases on murga when it came to barebones pups that included what I listed above (essentially, it is an ultra-small browsing pup and that's it). Both were/are about 80-90mb ISOs, and were/are just fantastic. But like I said, they're getting a bit dated.
barebones Xlacko Slim
@belham2
Not sure what your audience is for the USB sticks, but modern PC's (laptops) often require firmware for WIFI, and have nothing other than WIFI (or Bluetooth).
The size of the WIFI firmwares often exceed the size of the linux minimal image. And without firmwares, a browser does not have much functionality on laptops.
Look at Tinycore: the core is 17 Mbyte, with WIFI and all the firmwares it exceeds 100Mbyte (*) and 4 simple GTK1 window managers.
I will follow your challenge, but doubt it is usefull for anything other than older desktops. I really hope you succeed though !!!
Please keep SFS-on the fly option in.
Volhout.
Not sure what your audience is for the USB sticks, but modern PC's (laptops) often require firmware for WIFI, and have nothing other than WIFI (or Bluetooth).
The size of the WIFI firmwares often exceed the size of the linux minimal image. And without firmwares, a browser does not have much functionality on laptops.
Look at Tinycore: the core is 17 Mbyte, with WIFI and all the firmwares it exceeds 100Mbyte (*) and 4 simple GTK1 window managers.
I will follow your challenge, but doubt it is usefull for anything other than older desktops. I really hope you succeed though !!!
Please keep SFS-on the fly option in.
Volhout.
New X-Slacko Slim iteration released
Changes:
* New initrd. The initrd is based from the X-Slacko 4.2 initrd. It is more user friendly than before, it has improved resume from hibernation support, sfs mountpoint logging, and multisession logging for easy troubleshooting.
* Problem on loading multisession is fixed
* Bug on edit-initramfs on xz compression is fixed.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z1y7ph2w3 ... 4.2r58.iso
MD5 Checksum: b31cbab24520da682505877388dbbc43
Changes:
* New initrd. The initrd is based from the X-Slacko 4.2 initrd. It is more user friendly than before, it has improved resume from hibernation support, sfs mountpoint logging, and multisession logging for easy troubleshooting.
* Problem on loading multisession is fixed
* Bug on edit-initramfs on xz compression is fixed.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z1y7ph2w3 ... 4.2r58.iso
MD5 Checksum: b31cbab24520da682505877388dbbc43
Last edited by mistfire on Tue 10 Oct 2017, 04:59, edited 1 time in total.
video driver
Dear mistfire,
Is it possible for you to include 'modesetting_drv.la' or 'modesetting_drv.so' into Xslacko Slim.
This is the video driver needed for Intel Atom N2600/2800 video.
It is located (in previous XSlacko's) in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
Maybe you can use the one from R54 (slightly different kernel 4.12.2 versus 4.12.8 in R58).
Dear Regards.
Volhout
Is it possible for you to include 'modesetting_drv.la' or 'modesetting_drv.so' into Xslacko Slim.
This is the video driver needed for Intel Atom N2600/2800 video.
It is located (in previous XSlacko's) in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
Maybe you can use the one from R54 (slightly different kernel 4.12.2 versus 4.12.8 in R58).
Dear Regards.
Volhout