SliTaz Repositories

1 SliTaz ARM

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5 SliTaz ARM tools and files

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8 Sat howto

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10 Sat is a tool in the spirit of all SliTaz tools, all commands and options are

11 accessible via: sat usage or help. To create a distro you first need to have

12 some ARM packages. You can use custom cook, the one from the SliTaz mirror, put

13 them all in a packages/ directory and sat will install them. Then generate the

14 distro initramfs with your custom --options:

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16 # sat gen

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18 To boot the distro with Qemu you can run:

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20 # sat emu

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22 Sat lets you clone the ARM cooking repo to let you debug and try official ARM

23 packages. Sat will create a mirror directory in the working path and download

24 all lists and packages. After a first clone it will only check the repo ID

25 file and download any modified or new packages.

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28 History

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30 While I was porting SliTaz to ARM I ended up by creating a lot of initramfs'

31 to test the SliTaz boot, packages and so on. So I first wrote a small script,

32 then improved it by just having to put include packages in a single directory

33 and all custom files in a rootfs directory. I also wanted virtual disk support

34 so I can code under Qemu and save my work. This is how sat was born, one day

35 we may use TazLito or have a new SliTaz Live tool, but for the time being 'sat'

36 and the way it works fits all my needs to build custom distros and then boot

37 with qemu-system-arm.

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39 - Pankso 24 May 2012

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