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TazPuppy is a hybrid linux distro combining the Puppy Linux and Slitaz. It runs Slitaz on top while Puppy is running at the bottom.

Features

• Less crippled than Slitaz

• Smaller than average Puppy

• True multiuser support.

• The slitaz core scripts were modified to support Puppy backend

• Modular, high mobility, and flexible

• Improved wine integration

• Can load and use other linux distro from partition sandboxed

• Can use kernels and its zdrv modules from other Puppies

Package Management
TazPuppy primarily uses tazpkg for package management. Slitaz packages (.tazpkg) have better package curation and consistency due to centralized compiling server. But TazPuppy can also accept Puppy (.pet), Debian (.deb), Slackware (.txz), Red Hat (.rpm), and Arch (.pkg.tar.xz) natively.

Tazpkg documentation: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:packages
For latest slitaz package build see http://cook.slitaz.org

Modules
TazPuppy can load Puppy SFS modules, Slax modules, and Porteus modules.

Swapping kernels
You can use the kernel and ZDRV modules from other puppies:

• Just rename the ZDRV module of a puppy to zdrv_tazpup_5.0.sfs

• Put it beside the TazPuppy main SFS file

• Specify the kernel image of a certain puppy to be used on the bootloader settings (GRUB, LILO, SYSLINUX, ReFIND, etc)

Compiling Programs
TazPuppy can build its own devx module for compiling programs manually like puppy (Goto Setup>Make DEVX module). It can also use cookutils from Slitaz to build programs easily (just run setup-cooker on terminal before start using the Slitaz cookutils). Also TazPuppy is capable of hosting compiling server like Slitaz online cooker does.

Buildhost documentation: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:cookbook:buildhost

Building TazPuppy
TazPuppy has its own build system working on two modes:

• Local - Works without internet. But it requires to collect necessary packages first. Requires slitaz iso image and Puppy iso image

• Online - Build tazpuppy using slitaz packages from online repo. Requires Puppy iso image only

NOTE: Official TazPuppy was built from local mode and its highly customized. TazPuppy created from online mode will be based from Slitaz rolling packages.

Documentations:
Some parts of these documentation are applied to TazPuppy
Slitaz: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:start
Puppy: http://wikka.puppylinux.com

WARNING: Use this distro under you own risk. The developer has no liability and no responsibility for data loss from using this distro

Default account
Username: tux
Password: (blank)

Download: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linu ... -rc-12.iso
MD5 Checksum: 32f275ed42eec072b1ea3de4d53232f4

Build kit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XBnQwu ... sp=sharing

Old versions: https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Tazpup

Special Thanks to these persons who helped to build TazPuppy (to be updated):
@wiak, @darry19662018, @s243a, @smokey01, @sage, @Marv, @peebee, @fredx181, @ally, @Terry H, @thinkpadfreak, @foxpup,
@greengeek, @anticapitalista, @rg66, @keef, @don570, @hamoudoudou, @8Geee

GigaWatt wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:58 am @mistfire: Did you ever look into that VIA Chrome9 graphics issue? The forum is down, so I can't download the pic and reattach it here :-\.

busybox lspci
xorg-autoconf
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

longlivetheking wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:08 pm Cannot boot in.
Tested on 2 laptops.

Got these errors:

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Booting "tazpuppy-5.0-rc3"
This may take several seconds
error: file /SLUG not found
Press any key to continue.

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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.156-slim32 #4
Hardware name: GOOGLE Peppy/Peppy, BIOS MrChromeBox 07/14/2017
...
Kernel Offset: disabled
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

longlivetheking wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:38 pm Yes, it matches.

GigaWatt wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:32 pm I can do it (probably) in a few weeks or so. The rig's at my workplace and I've taken a vacation.

Anyway, thanks for the prompt reply .

mistfire wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:48 am Could you please run these commands on terminal and post the output here

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busybox lspci
xorg-autoconf
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

mistfire wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:54 am @GigaWatt Did you try that using latest tazpuppy version rc4?

mistfire wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:54 am Boot tazpuppy without starting Xorg using pfix=nox boot parameter on your bootloader
If you are using syslinux press TAB key to override the boot entry then press ENTER to boot. For grub press E to edit the boot entry then press F10 to boot

DEFAULT TP50RC2

LABEL TP50RC2
   MENU LABEL ^TazPuppy 5.0 (RC2)
   KERNEL kernel.dat
   INITRD ramdisk.dat
   APPEND pfix=copy,ram,fw_drv psubok=TRUE pkeys=us plang=en_US.UTF-8 pmedia=cd autologin

Pazzo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:01 am Hi Mistfire,

I've got here because of a reply you did on a Slitaz forum. Coincidently enough, I've been trying both Slitaz and Puppy (also many other light distros) on a few different hardwares. So I was a bit excited to see a mix of Slitaz+Puppy. Good job on that!

But I'm having a hard time with it. I downloaded this last one, RC4, checked MD5 (in more than one download) and already tried many different ways to flash it to a USB card (Unetbootin, Multiboot, Ventoy, Balena Etcher, Deepin, and even Chromebook Recovery Utility) and I'm not able to boot. I've tried on a netbook Asus Aspire One D250 (32Bit), and on an old Dell desktop Pentium IV (able to run 64Bit). Both were able to boot Slitaz (5.0 Rolling) and Puppy. Indeed, I installed Slitaz on the Dell (from which I'm writing this), and Puppy Slacko (6.3.2) on the Netbook.

When it was able to start booting, it gets to a point with a "Fatal Error!" "puppy_tazpup_5.0.sfs not found"

And that's it.

Don't know what to try next.

mistfire wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:35 pm
Did you install TazPuppy on a folder? If yes then specify the folder name using psubdir=[folder name] boot parameter. Edit your bootloader config file to add that boot parameter.

mistfire wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:44 am @Pazzo

dd-ing iso to usb stick is a bad idea. Disk image for CD is different from image for usb stick. Just use unetbootin

mistfire wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:54 am @GigaWatt Did you try that using latest tazpuppy version rc4?

mistfire wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:33 am @Pazzo

udev shouldn't be update. But anyways, I'll try to fix that issue.

Puppy Applications Chooser only works for Homegrown Puppy Applications Only.

Does your test laptop have synaptics touchpad?

TazWeb is a very simple browser like Dillo

Also TazPuppy automatically syncs time in every boot if an internet connection was detected