Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: jp48 on August 02, 2014, 01:35:48 PM
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Hi all,
I am using a bit older Amilo LA1703 with AMD processor, 1GB RAM. Not being completely newbie with various Linux distros, I would like to do installation manually (for some reason TC installer do not copy the files to my currently running Ubuntu 11.04, it makes directory but it is empty). As I already installed Ubuntu and solved various problems with audio + WIFI, I don't need to start scratch with them, so I downloaded both TinyCore and CorePlus ISO files. To know if I am right track, before installing I will describe here what I am going to do (frugal installation to my Ubuntu):
1. create /tinycore folder with subfolders boot/ and tce/
2. copying kernel + filesystem (core.gz, vmlinuz) to /tinycore/boot folder
3. copying ndiswrapper-1.59.tazpkg (+ few other packages) to /tinycore/tce folder
4. edit Grub (legacy), /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add lines:
menuentry 'TinyCore on /dev/sda1' {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /tinycore/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 tce=sda1/tinycore/tce quiet
initrd /tinycore/boot/core.gz
}
5. sudo update-grub
Am I right track ? I am not sure about Extensions, in what format they should be, I assume TC package format (.tazpkg).
Thanks for advance any tips etc. :) !!
-Jukka
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If you have a wired Internet connection, it would be better to download the *.tcz extensions from the command line, once booted, with "tce-load -w extension_name".
This will ensure any required dependencies are also downloaded.
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3. copying ndiswrapper-1.59.tazpkg (+ few other packages) to /tinycore/tce folder
the tcz files should go into /tinycore/tce/optional/
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menuentry 'TinyCore on /dev/sda1' {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /tinycore/boot/vmlinuz tce=sda1/tinycore/tce quiet
initrd /tinycore/boot/core.gz
}
I think the above is all that is needed in grub
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tazpkg? TC and Slitaz are not compatible.
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Hi,
Thanks all the replies, going to test today. And realized that tazpkg's were from Slitaz, yes, I know they're not compatible, just mixed them and have deleted Slitaz packages (it didn't work at all, kernel panic) and replace them with TC packages. I have mounted CorePlus ISO to get packages, going to test tce-load command line to get WIFI up, let's see what happens :).
-Jukka