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roberts:
Now posted first cut of rpiCore.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/arm/armv6/
 
This is pre-alpha. There are no extensions,
Edit cmdline.txt for testing boot parameters. Use a powered hub to use a usb pendrive for backup/restore or persistent home testing.
Expect bugs. Use Raspbian for compiling then move and test on rpiCore.

Install to sdcard via the usual, example using sdd change to your specifics,
gunzip < rpiCore-20120904.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd

Proceed with caution. Test carefully.

netnomad:
hi roberts,

i tested your rpiCore-20120904.img and it boots flawless to the prompt.
the rootfs and /etc look pretty good :-)

what are the limits of this first stage?
can i start using my fluxbox-environment with almost all tcz-packages of the repository
or do we need certain arm-specific packages?

thank you for these first efforts for the rpi and i'm looking forward for the next stages.

netnomad:
hi roberts,

woooh.... with sudo udhcpc i got a working internet connection.
also tce-ab started promising... but after downloading and installing the midnight commander,
i got the error message that it is not possible to install or to mount the package on the loop device.

would you give me some hints what limits are now or what we have to consider for the next steps?

thank you for every help and hint.

Rich:
Hi netnomad
Any extensions you want to run need to be compiled for ARM. You can not run X86 programs.

netnomad:
hi rich,

thank you for your reply.

some further informations:

there are loop devices under /dev:
/dev/loop0 to loop7   =      8 loop-devices
and an empty dir was created under /tmp/tcloop for the first package that was attempted to be installed:
/tmp/tcloop/libiconv

error message:
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /tmp/tcloop/libiconv failed: no such device
although there is a /dev/loop0-device.

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