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Difficulties with CorePlus installation to a pendrive
coreplayer2:
Until someone pipes in with a better strategy, I'd fix the boot codes with
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz loglevel=3 waitusb=5:UUID="6065ad4c-d216-48bb-a7c1-c538c02a42ed" tce=UUID="6065ad4c-d216-48bb-a7c1-c538c02a42ed" home=UUID="6065ad4c-d216-48bb-a7c1-c538c02a42ed"
though if it were me, I'd start over with the same installer. create a new partition using the whole USB available disk space and with ext2 formatting. Use the same boot codes as above until you feel the need to add more, like opt with same format as above. be sure the UUID matches the correct USB then you should be good (note: the APPEND is all one line)
gerald_clark:
Don't use home= until you understand what changes you have to make to the system for it to work properly.
Mike7:
Hi, coreplayer2, gerald_clark, curaga, and all.
Now I am even more confused. <grin>
Is APPEND a replace command? I'm not used to the terminal, but if this command appends instead of replacing, the boot codes will be even more messed up, won't they? Wouldn't it be safer and simpler to use curaga's method, editing extlinux.conf?
However, starting over with a fresh installation sounds like a good strategy to me, since I have hardly added anything yet to the installation. However, in order to do this I need to know exactly how to use the Installer app, which, as I said in my original post, is not obvious. (All the questions in that post still apply, not just the ones about which if any boot codes should be put onto that page of the Installer.)
If I do a re-install, why do I need to re-partition the pendrive into a single partition? I thought my decision to create a 3g boot partition and a 5g personal-data/backup partition was a good idea. Is it better to have a single 8g partition? Why?
If I re-install onto a single-partitoned pendrive using the Installer app, I'll have to choose between Frugal and USB-HDD (I will no longer need Frugal's option to install to a partition). Which should I choose? What's the difference? (I should go and read the book, right? But after a year of frustration I'm losing patience.)
BTW, can someone tell me if the installation from Windows using core2usb.exe is different in any way from the Installer app installation? If core2usb makes a good installation, without the pitfalls of the Installer app, I could go back to Windows and do that. But before doing so, I want to know how the installation core2usb.exe makes is different.
Now, gee, guys, I know I'm being a bore with all this newbie stuff, but after all I have been paying some dues. I mean, how many newbies are willing to pin down the problems with the Installer app so it can be improved? Or figure out that the first thing to do is download and install Fluff after a CorePlus installation? I think I'm doing pretty good.
So be nice and answer my questions, okay? :)
Cheers.
Mike
gerald_clark:
http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html
Mike7:
The book is great, Gerald, but it doesn't answer these questions and it won't get me out of my current difficulties. Sorry about that.
I think my questions are good ones and worth answering. I wouldn't bother people with frivolous questions.
Mike
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