piCore-X beta available

[bmarkus]

Please, do not post it here in the piCore-X beta topic! Keep Forum organized.

[cast-fish]

ok

[gagutierrez]

Hi Markus,
I'm new at this.
I followed your instructions but achieved nothing. The monitor remains black. I edited the config.txt file but I can not results.
to energize, and LNK LEDs flash OK, so I'll keep trying.
Greetings and thank you for the effort.

Do you see boot messages ot nothing at all?

Is it analog or digital (HDMI ot DVI) monitor? Did you try Raspbian, does it work?

My SD card is 8GB
My system ubuntu 10.04 lucid - core 2.6.32-42-generic
monitor: analog

gaston@gaston-nb:~$ sudo dd if=/media/G2J-PEN001/piCore-X-beta121119a.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
40+0 registros de entrada                                                    //->input records
40+0 registros de salida                                                     //->output records
41943040 bytes (42 MB) copiados, 6,28473 s, 6,7 MB/s                         //->42MB copied

Remove and reinsert SD card

gaston@gaston-nb:~$ df -h
S.ficheros            Tamaño Usado  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/sda1              36G   18G   16G  54% /
none                  241M  340K  241M   1% /dev
none                  245M  332K  245M   1% /dev/shm
none                  245M   84K  245M   1% /var/run
none                  245M     0  245M   0% /var/lock
none                  245M     0  245M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb1             7,5G  5,8G  1,8G  78% /media/G2J-PEN001
/dev/mmcblk0p1         38M   30M  8,0M  79% /media/A0D5-E528                 //38M is OK?

At boot in RPI, the display is black all time.
what is wrong?

[bmarkus]

Yes 38M is correct. Check config.txt settings and compare with settings of you working other distro.

BTW, is it a 256 or 512M RAM Pi?

[bmarkus]

New compressed SD card image is available, updated to base 20121202, 4.7.1 :

http://www.hasix.org/tc/piCore-X-beta121207a.img.xz

MD5:

http://www.hasix.org/tc/piCore-X-beta121207a.img.xz.md5.txt

[bricolodu13]

Hello Markus,

Sorry I'm absolutely newbie to linux   
I have successfully installed squeezelite to the Raspbian distro.
I also succeeded in installing piCore-X beta
My wish is to make a very minimalist squeezelite only system.
That is why I would like to install squeezelite in piCore.

Trying to do so, I'm facing different problems.
1/ I don't know should I install different directory and don't know how to proceed.
2/ I don't know how to create disk partition if necessary (as my disk looks like not fully partitioned)
3/ don't know how to load french keyboard and save the option
4/ don't know anything

best regards,
Jean

[bricolodu13]

Another thing that is not working for me : sudo apt-get

You'll find the howto for squeezelite installation on the Raspberry pi forum at the "Installing Squeezelite" topic

Best regards,
Jean

[bmarkus]

Another thing that is not working for me : sudo apt-get

You'll find the howto for squeezelite installation on the Raspberry pi forum at the "Installing Squeezelite" topic

Best regards,
Jean

It is not Raspbian nor a Debian clone. It has its own package management.

[bmarkus]

Hello Markus,

Sorry I'm absolutely newbie to linux   
I have successfully installed squeezelite to the Raspbian distro.
I also succeeded in installing piCore-X beta
My wish is to make a very minimalist squeezelite only system.
That is why I would like to install squeezelite in piCore.

Trying to do so, I'm facing different problems.
1/ I don't know should I install different directory and don't know how to proceed.
2/ I don't know how to create disk partition if necessary (as my disk looks like not fully partitioned)
3/ don't know how to load french keyboard and save the option
4/ don't know anything

best regards,
Jean

Jean

It is too early for your application, e.g. Alsa is not yet available. Check back later. Till you can read core concept and play with core on x86 platform to get familiar with it.

[tinypoodle]

See also:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,14130.0.html

[bmarkus]

New version piCore-X beta released. Changes:

• base updated to latest 4.7.3
• packages updated

Download:

http://www.hasix.org/tc/piCore-X-beta130107a.img.xz

[bmarkus]

New version of piCore-X beta available:

http://www.hasix.org/tc/piCore-X-beta130114a.img.xz

Identical to the previous version except boot loader which now identifies both 256M and 512M RAM board variants properly.

[bmarkus]

New version of piCore-X available:

http://www.hasix.org/tc/piCore-X-beta130116a.img.gz

flwm_topside.tcz updated to be compatible with WM/DE extensions.

[Cloudcentric]

Hi, just a quick question as you appreciate I am still learning..

Why is there two versions of piCore ?

I use the standard version and added the Desktop Environment manually, or should I just the the X version ?

[bmarkus]

Hi, just a quick question as you appreciate I am still learning..

Why is there two versions of piCore ?

I use the standard version and added the Desktop Environment manually, or should I just the the X version ?

piCore is the base version and let's say the only version.

piCore-X is piCore + preloaded extensions, an example use of piCore and extensions

Installing the necessary extensions on stock piCore you get piCore-X except the preloaded extensions in piCore-X are in a cde directory of mmcblk0p1 instead of a tce directory in another partion, which makes image distribution smaller and easier.