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Questions: Install Tiny Core without a CD or DVD drive
Guy:
What are the limitations and disadvantages of running Tiny Core on a fat32 filesystem?
Guy:
--- Quote ---Configuring a bootloader might be the slightly more tricky - and individualized - part.
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Can anyone come up with a good easy way of configuring a bootloader without running a cd or dvd?
I think the answer will vary, depending on which operating system you are running.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Guy on April 10, 2011, 06:46:12 AM ---What are the limitations and disadvantages of running Tiny Core on a fat32 filesystem?
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1. Lack of support for traditional Unix permissions.
2. Lack of support for (sym)links.
In consequence, there is no practical limitation about having kernel plus any kind of archive plus any kind of file containing a filesystem (to be mounted as loop).
TC's mechanisms of PPR with extensions being provided as squashfs's and backup being tarred do support FAT*.
However, a disadvantage would be that a user could not have multiple tce dirs with extensions symlinked.
OTOH, according to user preferences it could be seen as an advantage that TC could "peacefully" coexist with a *DOS system on the same FAT* partition. ;)
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Guy on April 10, 2011, 06:49:57 AM ---
--- Quote ---Configuring a bootloader might be the slightly more tricky - and individualized - part.
--- End quote ---
Can anyone come up with a good easy way of configuring a bootloader without running a cd or dvd?
I think the answer will vary, depending on which operating system you are running.
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Absolutely true - and more specifically on if a user would want to use an already existing bootloader.
tinypoodle:
Contemplating about the topic, netbooting would be an option which qualifies.
Of course in that case a second PC with a netboot server set up is a requirement.
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