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Setting up a pendrive for installation of TCL with core2usb

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Juanito:
One more item to consider is that if you install the windows driver for linux filesystems at http://www.ext2fsd.com/ you don't need to have any windows partitions on your usb stick.

You will only be able to read/write in windows to the first partition on the usb stick, but this has worked for me without problems for years.

[caveat - and you can probably safely ignore this - the above is true for bios boot usb sticks, if you use efi boot usb sticks, the first (efi) partition must be a windows filesystem]

Amazing, but perhaps not surprising, that after all this time windows still cannot access more than one partition on a usb stick, even if all the partitions are windows file systems...

Mike7:
Hi.


--- Quote ---Make it easy.
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Nothing is easy, Béla. <grin>.


--- Quote ---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.
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Worth a try, although I still have doubts about making new partitions once TCL is installed.

I'm sure some nice person here will explain to me later how to install and set up wireless on Core, right?

Mike

Juanito:

--- Quote from: Mike7 on December 19, 2013, 12:25:36 AM ---I'm sure some nice person here will explain to me later how to install and set up wireless on Core, right?

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Getting off-topic, but if you're lucky you just need to install the wifi extension and things will work.

Unfortunately, due to many suppliers not supporting linux, more effort is usually needed and there are many threads in these forums on the subject.

Misalf:
Hmm, is there a way to check if a flash drive is 'ext3/4 capable'?

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What about just copying TinyCore files on the flash drive alongside puppeee, in a /tce folder, and using the already present bootloader? You might be able to just edit the bootloaders config file to boot Core Linux.
There surely is one installed already while Puppeee is currently booting from that stick.


--- Quote ---Sorry, you'll have to excuse me, but I really have no idea what this means. I don't know what a bootloader is, to be perfectly frank, and I can't see how an OS could work in a separate partition.
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If a drive is bootable, the computer executes code from the MBR, which is/starts the bootloader so we can choose to boot files from the disk (kernel).


It's not possible to edit the partition where the currently running OS is installed on. Well, it might be possible in cloud mode if the drive can be unmounted but there would be only one single chance.

Resizing partitions can cause problems, yes. But creating partitions in unformated free space, I think, is pretty much save.

Mike7:
Hi, all. I'm still here but I have to deal with health issues for a few days. I'll get back to this thread as soon as I can.

Cheers!

Mike

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