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Tidy up Handbook (en) and add Apps
author Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org>
date Sat Jun 14 14:48:17 2008 +0000 (2008-06-14)
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pankso@7 24 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1>
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pankso@16 31 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">LiveUSB media</font></h2>
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pankso@7 33 <a name="tazusb"></a>
pankso@7 34 <h3>Tazusb - Live USB Tool</h3>
pankso@7 35 <p>
pankso@7 36 Tazusb is a tool that can create bootable usb media with a few simple commands.
pankso@7 37 It can also compress and backup the entire current filesystem to the media,
pankso@7 38 thus preserving all modifications for future use. Type <code>tazusb usage</code>
pankso@7 39 for a full list of commands or read
pankso@7 40 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/manuals/tazusb.en.html">TazUSB manual</a>.
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pankso@7 42 <h4>Generate your own LiveUSB media</h4>
pankso@7 43 <p>
pankso@7 44 To generate your own LiveUSB media, first you need to login as root with
pankso@7 45 <code>su</code> and locate your usb storage device using the command:
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pankso@7 47 <pre># fdisk -l # normally /dev/sda1
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pankso@7 50 Then format and label your device
paul@14 51 (<em>Warning</em>: this will erase all data, make sure you specify the right device):
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pankso@7 53 <pre># tazusb format /dev/sda1
pankso@7 54 </pre>
pankso@7 55 <p>
pankso@7 56 And finally generate LiveUSB media device:
pankso@7 57 </p>
pankso@7 58 <pre># tazusb gen-liveusb /dev/sda1
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pankso@7 60 <p>
paul@14 61 And that's all you need to do, you can now boot SliTaz from usb media (providing
paul@14 62 your computer bios supports this method).
pankso@7 63 </p>
pankso@7 64 <h4>Maintaining system settings</h4>
pankso@7 65 <p>When you finish your LiveUSB session, make sure you maintain your installed
pankso@7 66 packages, system settings etc by backing up the entire current filesystem with:
pankso@7 67 </p>
pankso@7 68 <pre># tazusb writefs gzip
pankso@7 69 </pre>
pankso@7 70 <p>
paul@23 71 This effectively compresses and backs up everything to 'rootfs.gz' to be
pankso@7 72 loaded the next time you boot.
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paul@34 74 <p>
paul@34 75 If anything should go wrong when writing your filesystem, you can simply rollback
paul@34 76 to your previous filesystem by typing 'previous' at the 'boot:' prompt. Older backups are
paul@34 77 named 'rootfs.gz.unixtimestamp' and can be safely deleted from the /home folder to save disk space.
paul@34 78 </p>
pankso@7 79 <h4>Tazusb Manual</h4>
pankso@7 80 <p>
pankso@7 81 The official Tazusb manual can be found in SliTaz
pankso@9 82 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/manuals/tazusb.en.html">Web site documentation</a>,
paul@14 83 it contains a lot more useful information. The manual is also available through the documentation menu on the LiveCD.
pankso@7 84 </p>
paul@34 85 <p>
paul@34 86 The maintainer of Tazusb has also written a nice
paul@34 87 <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 88 about the utility.
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