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Offline jerramy

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Dual boot Debian
« on: September 14, 2011, 12:42:22 PM »
Now I need to install Debian on the same machine that has TinyCore installed on it.  TinyCore has installed SysLinux for the boot manager.  What's the most pain-free method of installing Debian along side TinyCore, such that TinyCore is for the most part untouched?

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Dual boot Debian
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 01:30:38 PM »
Easiest?

Save your TC files.
Install Debian.
Put your tcl directory in the Debian root directory, and the TCL boot files in the Debian boot directory.
Add a TCL stanza to Debian's boot loader config file.

Offline jerramy

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Re: Dual boot Debian
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2011, 02:42:12 PM »
Thank you, I came to the same conclusion.  Much easier to shoe-horn TCL into Debian, than the other way around.

Offline beerstein

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Re: Dual boot Debian
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2011, 09:26:58 AM »
hi gerald_clark: You mean /tce when you wrote tcl directory?

hi jerramy:
I recommend installing debian first and then boot TCL from CD with tinycore tce=sdax home=sdax opt=sdax
Copy the TCL-CD /boot files into Debians /boot
Then make sure that your /home/debian  and /home/tc  is not backed up and restored every time. (pls see /opt/.xfiletool.lst)
Depending on Debians bootloader edit menu.lst or the Grub2 config file.  See WIKI

If you have enought  hd space you might consider a separate partition for TCL r,  and a seperate /boot partition which holds the
debian and TCL boot stuff.

I have no idea whether it helps to specify a swap file.



 
 
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Dual boot Debian
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2011, 11:26:46 AM »
Yes, I meant tce directory.
You can use the Debian swap partition. If it is a LV then you need to have
lvm onboot, and activate the partition before swapping on it.