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dCore Import Debian Packages to Mountable SCE extensions => dCore X86 => Topic started by: vinceASPECT on February 14, 2019, 05:16:08 AM

Title: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: vinceASPECT on February 14, 2019, 05:16:08 AM

Hi there

I downloaded -------dCorePlus-jessie.iso------  179 megs....but it won't boot in a hyper V-VM.  It never gets beyond trying to decompress the first stages after the boot prompt....then it just cycles back to the boot prompt.

All other TCL iso files boot fine in Hyper V's

can you fix it?...thx

thx

V

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: Jason W on February 14, 2019, 05:52:32 AM

Hi.  How much RAM have you given your V-VM session?  dCorePlus needs over 1GB, I give my Virtualbox 1.5GB of RAM for each virtual machine. 

dCorePlus images are so big mainly because of all the firmware they contain in /lib/firmware so all hardware is supported.   Thanks. 

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: vinceASPECT on February 14, 2019, 06:14:17 AM

ahh right...i only gave it 128 megs......so i will give it OVER 1 gig next time....and try again

thanks...


Does that mean that running it OUTSIDE of a VM would also need 1 gig of ram?


V

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: Jason W on February 14, 2019, 07:50:44 AM

Yes, outside of a virtual machine 1GB of RAM or more is needed.  That is because the dCorePlus image that comtains it's large extension is copied to RAM before being loaded with sce-load.  This is to allow initially burning the dCorePlus*.iso image to a USB with the dd command, booting with it, installing dCore-usbinstall, then using the same USB to install dCore to with dCore-usbinstall.  Writing the dCorePlus image to a USB with the dd command does not allow the USB to be used for a TCE directory. 

Folks with older machines will simply need to use dCore instead of dCorePlus and manually download and install the wireless extensions located in the downloads area.  Then a machine with 128MB of RAM would be enough to boot dCore and run a simple non-X environment.  I just booted dCore-bionic in Virtualbox with a session with 128MB of RAM. 

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: vinceASPECT on February 14, 2019, 07:54:49 AM

yeah J,,,,it's working good here


i will do like you said and get the BASIC dCore....then install the wi fi and a gui desktop....all my machines here have 256 meg ram or much more.....so it would be okay

just as a sidenote....where is the list of available REPOS or the command to display that list? (for doing SCE-imports)....... and what is the command to switch to any repo from the listed repos.

thanks

V

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: Rich on February 14, 2019, 08:03:40 AM

Hi vinceASPECT
There is a Wiki page with a lot of information:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:welcome
This might be a good place to start reading:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:faq

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: vinceASPECT on February 14, 2019, 08:14:44 AM

Ok rich...thanks a lot

Title: Re: dCorePlus.iso
Post by: 8rv88xrti on October 06, 2023, 01:46:20 PM

Quote from: Rich on February 14, 2019, 08:03:40 AM

There is a Wiki page with a lot of information:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:welcome
This might be a good place to start reading:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:faq

I just stumbled upon this and the links lead to 404-pages. Here are updated links:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=dcore:welcome
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=dcore:faq