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Seeking Local Help!, And about that folder...
ShatteredDaylight:
I've installed tiny core onto a usb using unetbootin because I run vista. It works. I have no ethernet so I need to install the wireless locally. Tutorials state to make a tce folder and drop everything in it? I don't want to even touch my hard drive because I have gigs of critical files with no backups :o . However I have a laptop so I don't really want to yank my hard drive. I put .tcz and .tce files in a handmade tce folder inside vista so that I can install the wireless locally, and others. And if I can figure out how to do that AND persistency then I should have no problem not touching my hard drive. PROBLEMS: can't figure out how to mount my drive. sda1 sda2 sr0 show up but only sda1 mounts. When I do mount it and explore its files there's nothing so I think its my vista drive. I know it detects CHEER which is the manufacturer's name of my USB and I think it mounts it as sdb. The app manager can't find sdb though and I don't think it can find any local apps either. Note: I can't burn CDs and I don't have floppy.
Also: is there a way to make a drive read only within tc because I have an awesome app I want to write but it would sort of format any unreadable drives.
Lee:
You can make your tce directory on the USB device and remove the one from your Vista drive. If you're using tc 2.7, you don't want .tce files in your tce directory - only .tcz - Are you dure you're downloading from the right repo?
Once you boot into tc, bring up a terminal window and type
--- Code: ---fdisk -l
--- End code ---
to list out your devices and partitions. It should become clear from the drive sizes which is your hard drive (with Vista) and which is your USB stick. (-not- using "sudo" keeps it safe, if you're leary of running fdisk).
Once you know the device name of your USB stick (or its label or uuid - see the wiki) you can use "tce=sdxn waitusb=5" on the boot command line to have your extensions loaded.
If your Vista volume is formatted as NTFS, you'll need one of two extensions to access it - filesystems...tcz (sorry I'm not typing that whole name) gives read-on;y access to ntfs and ntfs-3g.tcz gives read/write. Sounds like you'll want the read-only one - but that won't prevent you reformatting the volume.
--- Quote ---I have gigs of critical files with no backups. ... Also: is there a way to make a drive read only within tc because I have an awesome app I want to write but it would sort of format any unreadable drives.
--- End quote ---
What are you thinking?!?
ShatteredDaylight:
what tce directory on vista? are you thinking I put the tce folder on my hard drive? I double checked and I actually don't have any .tce in the tce folder (thought I did). And I took you advice and used fdisk and it showed me that the USB is indeed sdb and that tiny vore thinks it has 4 partitions when I know it has one (it also says that the physical and logical endings don't match and that it doesn't end on a cylinder)
I'm geussing its referring to the ... I forgot ... something about tmpfs, etc. (there's 4 of them).
My working boot actually is using the UUID and thats why I'm stumped since I can't find the extensions or sdbX:
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
menu title Multiboot_Options
timeout 1
label unetbootindefault
menu label OS
kernel /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet max_loop=255
waitusb=5 host=System laptop
tce=UUID="4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318"
restore=UUID="4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318"
home=UUID="4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318"
opt=UUID="4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318"
P.S. I just added the the quotes as I realize that may have been a problem.
Thanks for the response :)
edit: I just rebooted with quotes to no avail.
btw: does it matter if everthing is in one FAT32 partition?
Lee:
--- Quote ---I put .tcz and .tce files in a handmade tce folder inside vista
--- End quote ---
That tce folder on Vista. ;)
I've never actually used the UUID or volume label syntax for specifying directories, but everybody swears by it. I just use something like tce=sdb1 ( I actually use named directories like tce=sdb1/tce2.7 and I'm not so sure that is compatible with the UUID or volume label syntax)
It doesn't matter if your tce directory is on a fat filesystem, but home should be on ext2. I don't know about opt. I don't' use persistent home or opt.
ShatteredDaylight:
Thanks for helping me out Lee!
I just used Linux Live USB to make a USB stick in vista with VMware. Used the VM to get wireless access without installing any extensions. I then istalled necessary extensions to USBinstall hoping this would solve my obvious config problems... did a few things and looked around some more because it wasn't working a found that when it went to get USB device info it should have displayed something but I got nothing. SO mabye it can't detect my USB? but it boots from it so that can't be it right? Then again it does say that its an unknown filesystem with the four screwed up partitions...
I've been working on this all night :'( as I think the only other viable alternative to tiny core that would do what I want is building a distro from scratch :-\ and I'm obviously trying to avoid that.
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