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[fredx181]

Inspired by initiative from mistfire, see here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=113255

EDIT 2018-05-21, improved TazDog version, see here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=992740#992740

I was curious if it would be possible to use the porteus boot method with SliTaz, and it WORKS !
Same method as being used with DebianDog, XenialDog etc...
Very alpha stage though, only save to folder works, and the EXIT:/... parameter doesn't work (for save changes at shutdown only), therefore some scripts need to be added to the filesystem, which I didn't do (yet?)
Example to set up with grub4dos:
- Create folder "tazdog" at the root of a partition (must be Linux filesystem, e.g. ext4 for save-folder to work)
- from mounted (or extracted) ISO, copy the "live" folder to "tazdog", so you get /tazdog/live
Entry menu.lst (for sda1) :

[wiak]

Nice! I presume, from what you say, that Porteus save folder to EXIT: just needs the relevant scripts added, so that would be the next change. Have you tried slitaz package manager and other utils on it - is it all working like normal slitaz aside from having full persistence (which I presume it has)?

I'm busy writing a big program at the moment so sticking with that till finished (hopefully tomorrow) then I'll give your TazDog a spin. I really like this idea for Slitaz and I also hope mistfire gets his TazPup version all going like a normal Pup aside from being Slitaz...

wiak

[fredx181]

[ally]

mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Tazpup

[fredx181]

*** tazdog_32bit-2018-05-21.iso ***

Just for fun (couldn't resist ) I've put some effort in improving this.
Not intended to be a project like "TazPup" (btw, this is much more simple), so it is the last TazDog ISO I will share.

Changes:
- Save on Exit (at shutdown only) works now (changes=EXIT:/... option)
- Added Quick-remaster, TazDog-Installer, Edit-sfs, Convert-sfs, filemnt (mount .iso, .squashfs or .sfs from right-click in pcmanfm), sfs-load ((de)activate module from right-click in pcmanfm).
- Added "Create-savefile" (in Menu), and booting with savefile works now (previously only save-folder worked).
- Logout, Reboot, Shutdown provided by "obshutdown" (suspend doesn't work, btw, installing pm-utils will probably fix that)
- Installed some tools from Package Manager, e.g. bash, rsync, procps, coreutils, grep, find-utils.
(this to make some of the above mentioned programs work properly)

Automatic login as root now (password: root , in case you need it)
Kernel: 4.16.8 (took it from latest tazpup, thanks mistfire !)
Note: very little firmware included, can be installed from Package-Manager (or copy what you need from tazpup (or other puppy) (from /lib/firmware) will probably work also)

Download:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hk8xmwknaxc6vpz/tazdog_32bit-2018-05-21.iso?dl=1 Size: 89MB

Fred

[wiak]

[wiak]

But... it will die a death if you don't provide a mklive-tazdog build system... slitaz being a rolling release. Only saying...

EDIT:
In terms of future, would it not be better to at least provide same system but in form of 01-filesystem.squashfs for the absolute basics, and 02-....squashfs for the extra facilities like sfs-load and so on? I haven't looked at the iso yet but assume it is just one big 01-filesystem.squashfs along with the initrd and kernel etc.

wiak

[fredx181]

[wiak]