Tinycore on MacBook

[solorin]

Hi,

I'd like to give my sister a bootable USB with tinycore on it.

She has a MacBook from 2009.

I'm going to give the grub2.efi strategy as mentioned here a go.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=8151.0

but my question is a quick wikipedia-ing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook

shows that it's a 64-bit processor i think?
does that mean I should optimally use the 64-bit kernel?
but the 32 should work as well right?

Thanks.

Cheerio,
solorin

[Rich]

Hi solorin
Unless she has more than 4G of RAM, I don't think there is any reason to go to a 64 bit kernel. And even then,
unless she actually needs to use more than 4G of RAM, 32 bit should be fine.

[solorin]

wow. that was fast.

thanks. you're always very helpful Rich.

for others searching
there's this thread also,
which i only just now found.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,2890.15.html

cheerio,
solorin

[coreplayer2]

Also there is this method for Mac OS X   (which I'm still testing)

create a directory structure /efi/boot   on a FAT32 USB thumb drive

search for and download  " ISO-2-USB-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta "  and place either the 32bit or 64 bit version ( bootX64/32.efi ) in /efi/boot along with the appropriate 32bit or 64 bit version of tinycore.iso.

rename " tinycore.iso " to " boot.iso " (within /efi/boot directory)


boot your mac using the option key which should produce the efi boot menu and select the thumb drive, which should load tinycore

[solorin]

Thanks for your suggestion.

I can't find a project page, just a mediafire download.

I dunno. Maybe I'm naive but I trust something more if it's open source.

Also, it doesn't seem like she'll be able to use the persistence features of Tinycore
this way. And if I want to provide additional applications, I'd have to do a remaster,
correct?

My impression is that you can achieve the same results of "ISO-2-USB-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta" by configuring the grub2.efi to mount the iso on a loop and boot from the kernel image inside.
However, grub2.efi can be configured to boot from the kernel image residing directly in the filesystem of the drive.

I suspect that ISO-2-USB-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta might be a repackaged
grub2.efi. This can be tested by adding a grub2 config file.

Awesome. Please keep on with your fearless testing,
and do let us know if you discover anything interesting.
Thank you.

cheerio,
solorin