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TCL on a pendrive to run an Asus EeePC 1000HA?

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Rich:
Hi Mike7
I would strongly recommend you use the installer bmarkus created:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/files/core2usb-stable/
It was written with exactly your situation in mind, a machine currently running Windows with no CD drive.

Mike7:
Hi, Rich.

You wrote:


--- Quote ---I would strongly recommend you use the installer bmarkus created:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/files/core2usb-stable/
It was written with exactly your situation in mind, a machine currently running Windows with no CD drive.
--- End quote ---

I downloaded it and am planning to try it as a last resort. However, as I don' t know how it works and have had so much trouble with all other methods, even if it does install TCL on my pendrive I will have learned nothing from it, and I still won't be able to install anything else, like another distro or a bootable antimalware program.

This is an important learning experience for me, and as you know we learn more from our mistakes and from failure than from easy successes that we don't understand. Just messing with dd.exe has taught me a lot. So has searching for the reasons why syslinux and grub4dos aren't working. I didn't even know what a partition or an MBR was a month ago.

So, yes, I probably will end up giving core2usb a try. But I'm not too excited about a magic solution, if you get my meaning. I won't get any satisfaction from it, because I won't have solved the question of why I can't install in the usual ways.

Plus, suppose core2usb doesn't work. Imagine how I'll feel then.

Cheers!

Mike

Rich:
Hi Mike7

--- Quote ---But I'm not too excited about a magic solution, if you get my meaning. I won't get any satisfaction from it, because I won't have solved the question of why I can't install in the usual ways.
--- End quote ---
Tinycore is not your usual Linux and does not install in the usual way. Core2usb is not a magic solution. From the
core2usb summary page at SourceForge:

--- Quote ---WIndows program to install Tiny Core Linux on USB stick.
--- End quote ---
You'll note it is not listed as a Linux installer, but is specific to Tinycore because Tinycore is different. The same
is true of the  tcinstall  program except it is Linux based. Once you have Tinycore installed to USB there will be
no shortage of things you can learn.

tinypoodle:
Addressing partitions from windows with dd is neither a usual way.

Mike7:
Hi, Rich.


--- Quote ---Tinycore is not your usual Linux and does not install in the usual way. Core2usb is not a magic solution.  . . You'll note it is not listed as a Linux installer, but is specific to Tinycore because Tinycore is different. The same is true of the  tcinstall  program except it is Linux based. Once you have Tinycore installed to USB there will be no shortage of things you can learn.
--- End quote ---

Okay, now I just have to get up the courage to face another possible failure. You see, I've tried over a hundred installations over the past month (no exaggeration), and the only ones that worked were the first two I tried: Kaspersky Rescue Disk and Puppeee 4.4. After those, zilch. Hundreds of hours down the tube, and I'm a nervous wreck and can't sleep. Literally.

I've become convinced that I messed up my computer or the BIOS or my pendrives somehow and that I will never be able to boot anything else on this machine. If core2usb doesn't work, that will be the proof. So you can understand my anxiety about it.

Mike

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