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Offline Hoodsey

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tci error message.
« on: July 12, 2011, 03:47:06 PM »
hey everyone, just picked up an old laptop and found tinycore. when i type tci to install to the hard drive, i get the following error:

login[88]: root login on 'tty1'
cat: can't open '/etc/sysconfig/tcuser': No such file or directory
(none) login:
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Offline curaga

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 04:41:57 AM »
Have you checked the downloaded files with their md5sums? Is the laptop ram above the minimum requirement?
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Offline Hoodsey

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 08:23:15 AM »
The laptop is a Toshiba Tecra 8100. It's got a P3 450Mhz processor, 64MB RAM, 6GB HDD... figured it'd be good enough for a lightweight linux distro, I've been expecting it as a RAM issue.
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Offline curaga

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 09:37:51 AM »
64mb is enough. md5?

Also, boot with "pause" and post if you see any error messages.
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Offline Hoodsey

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 10:47:36 AM »
the md5 i got is as follows:

MD5 (multicore-current.iso) = 08cb05dcb2928ccf8bd2deb399bd5a76

also, after selecting a boot option before the gui loads, i get this message at the top of the screen:

pci 0000:01:00.0: no compatible bridge window for [mem 0x000c0000-0x0000cffff pref]

then proceeds to the desktop and works normal.

using tci pause I get login[79] instead.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 02:59:30 PM by Hoodsey »
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Offline curaga

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 03:40:00 PM »
Ah, you should've specified you were using multicore, I missed that part. The additional data in there raises the minimum memory required.

I'm afraid in such a situation you'd need to do a manual install.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 03:42:54 PM by curaga »
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Offline Hoodsey

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Re: tci error message.
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2011, 04:50:44 PM »
yeah, my bad on the MultiCore, thought it was obvious because i don't get any options to install with the tinycore CD.
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