Boot floppies 2.0

Released on 16 April 2009, needs up to 160Mb RAM

This floppy set will boot a SliTaz stable version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd:

# dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0

If you have a CD-ROM, a USB port and a USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.

You can start with one of the 3 following flavors:

• base needs 32MB of RAM and 5 floppies: fd001.img to fd005.img.
  base provides the minimum SliTaz distribution subset in text mode.
• justx needs 96MB of RAM and 11 floppies: fd001.img to fd105.img.
  justx provides the minimum SliTaz distribution subset with X11 support.
• core needs 160MB of RAM and 21 floppies: fd001.img to fd209.img.
  core provides the default SliTaz distribution.

Start your computer with fd001.img. It will show the kernel version string and the kernel cmdline line. You can edit the cmdline. Most users can just press Enter.

The floppy is then loaded into memory (one dot each 64KB) and you will be prompted to insert the next floppy, fd002.img. And so on up to fd005.img.

The base flavor will then start and you will be prompted to insert extra floppies for justx and core flavors. You can bypass this by using Q and Enter.

If you have an ext3 partition on your hard disk, the bootstrap can create the installation script slitaz/install.sh. You will be able to install SliTaz on your hard disk without extra media.

Each floppy set detects disk swaps and can be used without a keyboard.

Good luck.

ISO image floppy set

You can restore the ISO image on your hard disk using:

# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fdiso01.img
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fdiso02.img
# ...
# cat fdiso*.img | cpio -i

Images generation

• All these floppy images are built from a core or a Nin1 ISO.
• The loram is preprocessed by tazlitobox (Low RAM tab) or tazlito build-loram.
• The versions 1.0 and 2.0 are built with bootfloppybox available since 3.0.
• The newer versions are built with taziso floppyset available since 5.0.
• You can extract the kernel, cmdline and rootfs* files with this tool.
• You can change the floppy format (to 2.88M, 1.2M ...) with this tool.