problem while installing tiny core on hard disk

[manit123]

I have the file TinyCore-4.5.5.iso
What does multicore cd mean ? Is it core plus ?
I am following http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_hd
Firstly , the boot folder has following if you see folder of usb stick from which I booted
bzImage                  gpxe                     isolinux                 vmlinuz
core.gz                  grub                     rootfs.gz                vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz
If I mount iso , the boot folder has
core.gz                    isolinux                vmlinuz
The link says of copying 'tinycore.gz'
Should I assume core.gz ? (it has same md5sum on both).

[ananix]

Think corePlus has been named multicore since tc 3.7 i think.
I dont understand what link tells you to copy tinycore.gz, i look through the installation wiki you linked to and i could only find references to core.gz.

[Rich]

Hi manit123
See if the changes noted in these release notes answers your questions:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12191.0.html

[manit123]

sorry , i was referring to http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_hd_offline.
from where will i get install.gz ?
ALso

Run the installer from Control Panel, then HD/USB Install.

I did not find any such option in control panel.

[Rich]

Hi manit123
Those instructions refer to Tinycore 3.6. Check the icons at the bottom of the screen, is one of them called tc-install?

[manit123]

this time I created a coreplus bootable USB .
Then ran tc-install.sh from terminal.
i got

Select Formatting Option for sdb2

         1. none
                  2. ext2
                           3. ext3
                                    4. ext4
                                             5. vfat
                                             
                                             Enter selection ( 1 - 5 ) or (q)uit: 2
                                             Mark sdb2 active bootable? y/n:y
                                             Enter space separated boot options:
                                             Example: vga=normal syslog showapps waitusb=5
                                             waitusb=10
                                             
                                             Last chance to exit before destroying all data on sdb2
                                             Continue (y/..)? y
                                             
                                             Formatting /dev/sdb2
                                             mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
                                             0+1 records in
                                             0+1 records out
                                             440 bytes (440B) copied, 0.015015 seconds, 28.6KB/s
                                             Toggle Active Flag on sdb2
                                             
/dev/sdb:
UUID="2fc7b11f-20e8-4064-a538-b97f134ee2f6"
Applying extlinux.
/mnt/drive/tce/boot/extlinux is device /dev/sdb2
Input/output errorSetting up tc.iso image on /mnt/sdb2
cp: can't stat '/mnt/staging/boot//tc.iso.gz': No such file or directory
Setting up menu for Windows and Tiny Core
Installation has completed

[Rich]

Hi manit123
Click on the desktop and look through the menu, there should be a tc-install entry there, click on it.

[manit123]

let us say in my previous post there was 'input/output error' which can be attributed to faulty device .
This time I ran tc-install.sh after booting from USB stick to install tiny core on USB hard disk drive.
I copied coreplus-current.iso to /tmp as cp.iso and gave its full path
I got error

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Select Formatting Option for sdb2

         1. none
                  2. ext2
                           3. ext3
                                    4. ext4
                                             5. vfat
                                             
                                             Enter selection ( 1 - 5 ) or (q)uit: 2
                                             Mark sdb2 active bootable? y/n:y
                                             Enter space separated boot options:
                                             Example: vga=normal syslog showapps waitusb=5
                                             waitusb=10
                                             
                                             Last chance to exit before destroying all data on sdb2
                                             Continue (y/..)? y
                                             
                                             Formatting /dev/sdb2
                                             mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
                                             0+1 records in
                                             0+1 records out
                                             440 bytes (440B) copied, 0.014392 seconds, 29.9KB/s
                                             Toggle Active Flag on sdb2
                                             
                                             /dev/sdb:
                                             UUID="dd335ce6-246a-481b-a2a0-f2360fb26584"
                                             Applying extlinux.
                                             /mnt/drive/tce/boot/extlinux is device /dev/sdb2
                                             Setting up cp.iso image on /mnt/sdb2
                                             cp: can't stat '/mnt/staging/boot//cp.iso.gz': No such file or directory
                                             Setting up menu for Windows and Tiny Core
                                             Installation has completed


[Rich]

Hi manit123

cp: can't stat '/mnt/staging/boot//cp.iso.gz': No such file or directory

That extra  /  between  boot  and  cp.iso.gz  looks like the problem.

[manit123]

This time I pressed tc-install button on wbar . Mounted coreplus.iso  at /cpcd and gave location /cpcd/boot folder for core.gz file.
I chose frugal because USB hdd did not provide option of choosing partition to install and I don't want to wipe the USB hard disk on which I am installing.
All went well.
Thye tree of installed partition is

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/i-installed/
|-- [ 12K]  lost+found [error opening dir]
`-- [1.0K]  tce
    |-- [1.0K]  boot
    |   |-- [5.1M]  core.gz
    |   |-- [1.0K]  extlinux
    |   |   |-- [ 207]  extlinux.conf
    |   |   `-- [ 32K]  ldlinux.sys
    |   `-- [2.4M]  vmlinuz
    |-- [   0]  mydata.tgz
    |-- [  57]  onboot.lst
    `-- [1.0K]  optional
        |-- [3.2M]  Xlibs.tcz
        |-- [  44]  Xlibs.tcz.md5.txt
        |-- [120K]  Xprogs.tcz
        |-- [  24]  Xprogs.tcz.dep
        |-- [  45]  Xprogs.tcz.md5.txt
        |-- [364K]  Xvesa.tcz
        |-- [  44]  Xvesa.tcz.md5.txt
        |-- [288K]  fltk-1.10.tcz
        |-- [  48]  fltk-1.10.tcz.md5.txt
        |-- [ 28K]  flwm_topside.tcz
        |-- [  14]  flwm_topside.tcz.dep
        |-- [  51]  flwm_topside.tcz.md5.txt
        |-- [ 36K]  wbar.tcz
        |-- [  14]  wbar.tcz.dep
        `-- [  43]  wbar.tcz.md5.txt
5 directories, 21 files

i don't see boot-grub-menu.lst though i had checked 'install bootloader' though unchecked 'mark partition as active bootable' .
Did I do wrong considering that i want tiny core to be only distro on my USB hard disk.

[Rich]

Hi manit123
The boot loader That TC installs is extlinux. You can install grub if you wish, but if this does what you want,
then there is no need to do that.

[manit123]

I have found grub-0.97-splash.tcz as a convenient option .
In /boot/grub/menu.lst , I am able to create multiple entries for tiny core with varying onboot.lst  . ALso other mini distros like slitaz can be added to list . Thus USB stick can boot mutiple OS .
As Rich has rightly pointed out - I did not knew bootloader then.

Consider this thread closed.