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theYinYeti:
My USB pendrive is neither old nor small. It is a 16GB pendrive bought this year. Besides, I only want a single FAT32 partition on it. I don’t need nor want any other partition on it. And it is neither USB-ZIP nor USB-Floppy; it is USB-HDD.

Anyway, I don’t understand: dCore is supposed to run from the "dCore.gz" initramfs. The install media is only meant as storage for the extensions, and FAT32 should be suitable for this purpose. And as can be checked while zero extensions are created (first boot after install, when I still get the prompt), the USB pendrive’s FAT32 partition gets mounted perfectly well, and I can read and write to it normally.

That being said, I miss many extensions in TC5, and I’m willing to try hard to make dCore work, and see if I can replace TC5 with dCore. I can format the pendrive again (even create a new partition table) and start anew.
Keeping in mind I only want a single FAT32 partition, what tools/commands do you propose I run to achieve the right USB media layout for dCore?

thane:
FWIW, since my last post I've tried using the standard TC 5.0 tc-install to format my USB stick to ext4, then copied over the dCore.gz and vmlinuz files from the dCore ISO and updated the extlinux.conf file to boot dCore. I then deleted the original core.gz and the directories under tce that aren't relevant to dCore. This setup actually booted and I was able to import the packages for the flwm_desktop without apparent errors.

Don't know what the readme instruction to "specify the desktop as a boot parameter" means, if it's something different than the following instruction to add "desktop=flwm_topside at the end of the boot parameter line".

Still got errors (probably because I omitted something above) when I tried to reboot into the desktop. Ended up at the box sign-in.

Juanito:

--- Quote from: theYinYeti on September 29, 2013, 10:31:33 AM ---I miss many extensions in TC5..

--- End quote ---

If you can let us know which ones work in tc-5, we can move them across

theYinYeti:
Juanito: You’re right, and I’ll try and find the time to do that, although the list is quite long :)

But to tell the truth, I’m actually very interested in dCore since I’ve heard about it, and I’d like to see it work.
You may be interested to know that xorg-all is the culprit. I tried with xorg-vesa instead with the same failure:
“can't run '/sbin/getty': No such file or directory”
on and on and on… and no prompt :(
If however I only load Xprogs, flwm_topside, and wbar, boot happens normally, I get a shell prompt, and I can see that the three extensions appear in /tmp/tcloop.
Something must be wrong with xorg or one of its dependencies… Could someone make available to me an xorg-all.sce that is known to work?

thane:
Confirming what theYinYeti wrote, when I deleted the xorg-all.tce package and removed the name from sceboot.lst on the USB stick it booted to tcbox with no error messages.

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