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| author | Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Sat Apr 26 00:17:39 2008 +0000 (2008-04-26) |
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| pankso@7 | 23 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1> |
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| pankso@16 | 30 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">LiveUSB media</font></h2> |
| pankso@7 | 31 |
| pankso@7 | 32 <a name="tazusb"></a> |
| pankso@7 | 33 <h3>Tazusb - Live USB Tool</h3> |
| pankso@7 | 34 <p> |
| pankso@7 | 35 Tazusb is a tool that can create bootable usb media with a few simple commands. |
| pankso@7 | 36 It can also compress and backup the entire current filesystem to the media, |
| pankso@7 | 37 thus preserving all modifications for future use. Type <code>tazusb usage</code> |
| pankso@7 | 38 for a full list of commands or read |
| pankso@7 | 39 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/manuals/tazusb.en.html">TazUSB manual</a>. |
| pankso@7 | 40 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 41 <h4>Generate your own LiveUSB media</h4> |
| pankso@7 | 42 <p> |
| pankso@7 | 43 To generate your own LiveUSB media, first you need to login as root with |
| pankso@7 | 44 <code>su</code> and locate your usb storage device using the command: |
| pankso@7 | 45 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 46 <pre># fdisk -l # normally /dev/sda1 |
| pankso@7 | 47 </pre> |
| pankso@7 | 48 <p> |
| pankso@7 | 49 Then format and label your device |
| paul@14 | 50 (<em>Warning</em>: this will erase all data, make sure you specify the right device): |
| pankso@7 | 51 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 52 <pre># tazusb format /dev/sda1 |
| pankso@7 | 53 </pre> |
| pankso@7 | 54 <p> |
| pankso@7 | 55 And finally generate LiveUSB media device: |
| pankso@7 | 56 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 57 <pre># tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sda1 |
| pankso@7 | 58 </pre> |
| pankso@7 | 59 <p> |
| paul@14 | 60 And that's all you need to do, you can now boot SliTaz from usb media (providing |
| paul@14 | 61 your computer bios supports this method). |
| pankso@7 | 62 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 63 <h4>Maintaining system settings</h4> |
| pankso@7 | 64 <p>When you finish your LiveUSB session, make sure you maintain your installed |
| pankso@7 | 65 packages, system settings etc by backing up the entire current filesystem with: |
| pankso@7 | 66 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 67 <pre># tazusb writefs gzip |
| pankso@7 | 68 </pre> |
| pankso@7 | 69 <p> |
| paul@23 | 70 This effectively compresses and backs up everything to 'rootfs.gz' to be |
| pankso@7 | 71 loaded the next time you boot. |
| pankso@7 | 72 </p> |
| paul@34 | 73 <p> |
| paul@34 | 74 If anything should go wrong when writing your filesystem, you can simply rollback |
| paul@34 | 75 to your previous filesystem by typing 'previous' at the 'boot:' prompt. Older backups are |
| paul@34 | 76 named 'rootfs.gz.unixtimestamp' and can be safely deleted from the /home folder to save disk space. |
| paul@34 | 77 </p> |
| pankso@7 | 78 <h4>Tazusb Manual</h4> |
| pankso@7 | 79 <p> |
| pankso@7 | 80 The official Tazusb manual can be found in SliTaz |
| pankso@9 | 81 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/manuals/tazusb.en.html">Web site documentation</a>, |
| paul@14 | 82 it contains a lot more useful information. The manual is also available through the documentation menu on the LiveCD. |
| pankso@7 | 83 </p> |
| paul@34 | 84 <p> |
| paul@34 | 85 The maintainer of Tazusb has also written a nice |
| paul@34 | 86 <a href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/features/602451/make-any-pc-your-own-with-linux-on-a-usb-key.html">article</a> |
| paul@34 | 87 about the utility. |
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