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Offline fuf

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Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« on: September 15, 2013, 10:59:46 AM »
Hello,

I used unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with CorePlus on.

The boot menu gives me a choice of 7 or 8 window managers. Whichever one I choose the same thing happens. Things seem to be loading, some text scrolls by very fast, but then the screen switches to a command prompt:

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tc@box:~$

I read something about running 'tinycore xsetup', but when I try that I just get:
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-sh: tinycore: not found

Any ideas? I'm afraid I'm fairly new to all this.

For reference, I can boot into Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux without any problems.
« Last Edit: September 15, 2013, 11:02:48 AM by fuf »

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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2013, 11:06:08 AM »
Copy the CorePlus ISO directly to the USB stick. Do not use unetbootin.

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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2013, 11:17:10 AM »
Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't sure what you meant so I tried two things:
1. Copied literally just the .iso file onto the USB stick
2. Mounted the .iso and copied the three directories onto the USB stick (boot, [BOOT], and cde)

Both times I just got:
"This is not a bootable disk"

edit: found this thread and presumably I need to use grub4dos to create a bootable usb. I'll try that and report back:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=10430.0
« Last Edit: September 15, 2013, 11:28:53 AM by fuf »

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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2013, 11:56:19 AM »
dd if=the.iso of=/dev/sdx

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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2013, 12:28:13 PM »
Thank you. That worked. :)

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)

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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2013, 01:20:22 PM »
Or use the official USB installer:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/
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Re: Booting from USB - Stuck at command line
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2013, 04:40:05 PM »
Thank you. That worked. :)

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)
fyi
grub4dos is just one of the  #bootloaders
you could install/use 
to get you os  starting up

i think the.iso uses syslinux boot loader

& this guide was able help me make a little more sense of grub4dos and all this boot loader lark
http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm 
« Last Edit: September 16, 2013, 04:42:25 PM by dubcore »