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Becker_11:
Hi, I'm looking to install Tiny_Core as a dual boot OS alongside my current Ubuntu 10.04 install on my Eee pc netbook. Usually I can grasp ideas fairly quickly but I'm finding this a bit tricky. 10.04 uses Grub2 which as we all know is vastly different to Grub Legacy

What are the basic steps I need to follow to make this happen?

BTW my reason for wanting to use TC are. I want to install Firefox and have a trimmed down & fast loading web surfing OS for use at net cafes etc

Cheers

Nathaniel

Guy:

--- Quote ---I typically run Tiny Core embedded. For a grub2 Ubuntu hard drive system the easiest method that I use is:

Boot up Ubuntu, become root user
Make directories /tce/boot
Download from distribution files http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/distribution_files/
bzImage and tinycore.gz into the /tce/boot/ directory.
Next edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom
At the bottom of this file add the following

menuentry "Tiny Core Linux" {
set root='(hd0,1)'
linux /tce/boot/bzImage quiet
initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz
}

Then run update-grub

Note: That grub2 counts devices from 0 but partitions from 1.
So in the example above points to hda1. This is where Ubuntu is installed.
Once succesfully booted the remaining directories that Tiny Core needs are automatic. Everything Tiny Core needs is one single directory!
This, of course, requires base supported file systems.
--- End quote ---

This was written by Robert http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=7707.0

Becker_11:
Thanks very much for giving me that info.

I am in the middle of an iPhone crisis at the moment but once that is sorted will be getting stuck into installing TinyCore.

Cheers

Becker

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