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Setting up a pendrive for installation of TCL with core2usb

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coreplayer2:
As you can see, there is no shortage of idea's or methods.

Why not install core2usb on WinXP (the OP has WinXP on the net-book right?) then use it to install coreplus to the usb,  seems to be the quickest method to me.

bmarkus:
Make it easy.

1) Create a 64MByte FAT partition on the USB stick with WINDOWS
2) Install Core or TC on WINDOWS with core2usb

It will leave intack partitions, just copies files and installs a bootloader (syslinux). It is safe. Forget CorePlus. To be honest I have never used, most people do not need it.

Now your stick is ready to use. Just boot your PC from the newly created stick. Partitioning of remaining part of the stick can be done native with fdisk and you can create /tce on a new Linux partition. Reboot and start using it.

Mike7:
Hello, Gerald.


--- Quote ---CorePlus is an installer image. You can use dd from puppy to copy the CorePlus ISO to a small ( 128M or larger ) Flash drive. You can then boot that flash drive and use it to do a regular install to another flash drive.
--- End quote ---

Hmmm. Sounds good, but I can see problems. Don't get me wrong, I'd certainly like to give this a try. But:

- Is CorePlus an isohybrid image? If not, it won't work . Or so I've been told. As a matter of fact, someone in this forum told me back in March that the Multicore iso was the only TCL iso that could be successfully dd-ed onto a flash drive and boot it.

I have dd-ed a number of Linux iso's, even proven isohybrid ones, to flash drives and none of them were bootable. I don't know why. Maybe something about the MBR, since PuppeeeLinux has a special MBR writer that is run from the pendrive first, after the unpacked iso files are copied to it, and which makes it bootable.

(Yes, my computer can boot flash drives, since it boots PuppeeeLinux and Kaspersky Rescue Disk on flash.)

- This still doesn't answer my original questions about how the flash drive for the final installation should be partitioned and formatted.

Cheers!

Mike

gerald_clark:
The CorePlus ISO is an isohybrid image.
Puppy's MBR has nothing to do with it.  You don't copy an MBR to the thumb drive.
You copy the CorePlus ISO image to the thumb drive.
dd if=the-coreplus.iso of=/dev/sdx

Mike7:
Hi, coreplayer2.


--- Quote ---As you can see, there is no shortage of idea's or methods.
--- End quote ---

Yes. An understatement, for sure <grin>.


--- Quote ---Why not install core2usb on WinXP (the OP has WinXP on the net-book right?) then use it to install coreplus to the usb,  seems to be the quickest method to me.

--- End quote ---

I have core2usb.exe, and I've gone through the compatibility issues here. What I'm trying to work out now is the best way to partition and format the final pendrive before doing the installation (whether by core2usb in Windows XP or dd in Linux).

I'm not really looking for problems, although it might seem that way. I've read in many places, and have experienced myself, that it just isn't a good idea to try and make new partitions and new formatting on a pendrive after installing Linux on it. At the same time, it doesn't make sense to me to install TCL on an 8G pendrive that has only one partition. Maybe I'm wrong about this. But, like I said earlier, I've lost the use of half my 4G pendrive with PuppeeeLinux on it by not partitioning properly beforehand. When I tried to make a new partition, the pendrive would no longer boot and I had to wipe it and do a whole new installation.

So I'm trying to solve these issues now, rather than suffer the consequences later.

Cheers.

Mike

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