Hard Drive Install

[grayman]

Hello everyone!

I downloaded TinyCore-4.2 and have been trying to install it to my hard drive. But for some reason the TC-Grub4DOS and TC Install buttons don't appear in the Taskbar/Panel at the bottom of the screen. Could anyone help me please?

[Rich]

Hi grayman
Open AppBrowser and install  tc-grub4dos.tcz

[roberts]

Please note as of 4.2 tc-grub4dos.tcz has been deprecated and thus is no longer available.

[grayman]

Have tried and sadly failed to install either TinyCore-4.1 and 4.2, so i shall have to give Tiny Core Linux a miss until another time perhaps? Thanks for the replies both

[roberts]

If your only option is embedded in an NTFS filesystem then you should consider a remaster.  Search below in the topic for remasters, The Full Core.

If not CorePlus should be used for easy hard drive (frugal) installation.

[newbody]

Have tried and sadly failed to install either TinyCore-4.1 and 4.2, so i shall have to give Tiny Core Linux a miss until another time perhaps? Thanks for the replies both

Not sure if you still follow this thread but if you do.
I have 4.1 now running on NTFS and it works but one have to use backup instead of persistence.
It boots fast and do everything that I needed.

It is a bit tricky to set up and I am not good at describing it but the install is fully manual
and use grub4dos and an easy menu.lst and it is a frugal install.


title TinyCore 4.1 stable fluff filemanager added Swedish using kmap=qwerty/fi-latin9
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /tce/boot/vmlinuz
kernel /tce/boot/vmlinuz  showapps noswap vga=792 kmap=qwerty/fi-latin9
initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz /tce/boot/ntfs-3g.gz

this part is the most tricky one.
initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz /tce/boot/ntfs-3g.gz

I tested this today on a 1GB install on USB using TCL 4.1
So I can not give advice on 4.2 And one needed the ntfs-3g.gz
for to be able to edit files on a NTFS internal harddrive.

One need to find ntfs-3g.gz and put it manually from USB flash memory install
or if the repo has it then maybe one can do a On-Boot install? I know too little
and move it to the harddisk and it is important to use this odd code.

initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz /tce/boot/ntfs-3g.gz

First time I ever seen that one can do such things in grub4dos.

Sadly I don't remember how I managed to get it installed on the USB though
so you have to either find that file somewhere or find a description on how
to get it downloaded or installed and then save a copy of it to your HD.

As RobertS told you there is SvOlli's remix that is updated automatically
and he use grub4dos and do boot on NTFS. But that one is not officially
supported on the forum if I get it. That one work well too. I have both but
only the official one installed so I can ask questions on the forum.

Hope it helps. Don't give up.

Somebody told how one boot TinyCore using iso boot and that maybe can help you?

Ah here it is that is SvOlli too.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=10430.0