Morning,
I got the laptop with 4GB RAM for one evening. It wouldn't boot the USB stick
![Sad :(](https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
So I installed VirtualBox on Windows (hey, 3GB RAM+10GB swap is still better than 2GB RAM+2GB swap…) and installed TC on a new virtual machine, using CorePlus iso.
The USB stick was inserted, so that I could later copy my files over to the fake hard disk. TC_install correctly listed sda1 (swap), sda2 (previously formatted as ext3) and sdb1 (usb), and I selected sda2 for installation. TC_install even displayed that it was setting the boot flag on sda2, but it failed to install nonetheless. Never did I select sdb1, nor did I mount it.
Long story short: TC_install made something to my USB stick in the process for no reason, rendering it unreadable, and I'm worse than back to square one, rather back to square zero
![Sad :(](https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
Time was running short (I had to give back the laptop in the morning, with all traces of my activity removed), so this marks the end of my efforts; I'm out of options. I'm going back to TC 4.7.7.
Good luck to the next one
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