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Offline Filisko

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Can't install TC because of that ...
« on: February 14, 2014, 01:08:56 PM »
Hello, today I tried to install Tinycore, when I boot it, appears a black screen with a ... 24x24 cross with white borders at the center, why is that?

Thanks!

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2014, 01:19:05 PM »
It sounds like X is loading with no window manager.
Did you include a window manager?
Boot with the 'text' boot option and show the contents of your onboot.lst.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2014, 01:25:21 PM »
what must appear on that archive?

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2014, 01:28:28 PM »

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2014, 01:29:17 PM »
this is what i have
Xlibs.tcz
Xprogs.tcz
Xvesa.tcz
aterm.tcz
fltk-1.1.10.tcz
flwm_topside.tcz
freetype.tcz
imlib2-bin.tcz
imlib2.tcz
libICE.tcz
libSM.tcz
libX11.tcz
libXau.tcz
libXdmcp.tcz
libXext.tcz
libXfont.tcz
libXi.tcz
libXmu.tcz
libXpm.tcz
libXrandr.tcz
libXrender.tcz
libXt.tcz
libfontenc.tcz
libjpeg-turbo.tcz
libpng.tcz
libxcb.tcz
wbar.tcz



i got the plus one too, and the same thing happens.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2014, 01:35:38 PM »
Are you having trouble booting the install CD or is the problem occurring when you boot after the install?

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2014, 01:37:07 PM »
I'm trying to install it with my pendrive, I can't even see the desktop

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2014, 01:43:57 PM »
Boot from a CD or dd the iso image directly to a USB drive, not a partition.
Then you can boot and run the installer.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2014, 01:51:04 PM »
What "dd" means? I've used universal usb installer to put it on my usb.

I see the boot menu, but after select the first one (not the command line one) loads something with text line "DONE" and all this things in green and yellow, and after that appears the cross.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2014, 02:02:26 PM »
That is not supported.
Use a CD drive or raw copy the iso to a thumb drive so you can boot and run the installer.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2014, 05:19:46 PM »
Hi Filisko
There is a section on ijnstalling to thumb drives here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#pendrives
There is a link to  core2usb  included there, which is a Windows based installation utility.

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2014, 02:08:58 AM »
I burned two CD's, one with CorePlus and another one with TinyCore, after that, I used core2usb to put the TinyCore on my USB, and the same thing appears:

tc@box:~$

What I can do from there? :S

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2014, 02:12:06 AM »
What "dd" means? I

It is a Linux command to write, save, restore storage media physical content.
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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2014, 02:46:48 AM »
I burned two CD's, one with CorePlus and another one with TinyCore, after that, I used core2usb to put the TinyCore on my USB, and the same thing appears:

tc@box:~$

What I can do from there? :S

What about that?

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Re: Can't install TC because of that ...
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2014, 04:02:35 AM »
If I understand correctly, you've booted from a usb stick and arrived at the console prompt.

If this is the case and you have a wired network connection, you can now download the extensions required to obtain a gui - for example:
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$ tce-load -iw Xorg-7.7 Xprogs flwm aterm
$ startx