Ok, so I've been playing with TC for about a month...and have wandered around asking questions and trying
to modificate things-not making anything new-just modificating.
So, a little background; I've been playing with Linux since late December 2008(6months ago) when I inadvertently told Unetbootin to install some distro, I don't even remember, to my USB blantantly/stupidly
not understanding what I was doing and ended up installing syslinux to my WinXP hd!
I have 3 years experience with computers in general, all with XP on the same PC.
At reboot I got a back screen with a blinking cursor!!
I rebooted 3 more times before freaking out....
Ok, I had a Ubuntu-8.04 livecd I got thru the mail as I had dial-up then.
I had only used it twice and couldn't get it to connect via dial-up and the "language" of Linux
in general seemed alien. "mount?"
Anyway, I didn't have a XP recovery disc, and didn't know about how to save it.
I retrieved my files from the HD with USB, installed Ubuntu-SE-8.04 'cause of the Bathory wallpaper and it's more compact installed apps.
I joined the Linuxquestions.org forums and started asking dumb questions like my first post
" help!
ok-newbie question---installed slack disk 1 only/booted up and stopped at b(me) login/ i entered name+password
came up with # cursor
typed startx
nothing what do i do??"
Duh? No snit.
Long story short, I have learned much since then.
Now, I started smashing distro's together and started learning how to modificate Linux while jammin
Metallica and Slayer,etc
Isolinux, syslinux, extlinux, cd's usb's, hundreds of distro's-floppies, hd installs,etc.
whew, I have like 100 cd's and 8+ partitions on my two workhorses; a HP Pavillion a810n AMD Athlon64
3300+ 2.4Ghz w/160GB filleted HD booting Slackware-12.2/Ubuntu-SE/Debian/TC-1.4.3/Mini-Slack(slimmed down slack w/JWM)/SuperOS/and DSL-4.4.10 HDinstall and a storage partition.
The other is a Emachines with AGP256MB card, AMD AthlonXP 2200+ 1.8Ghz w/180GB HD booting Ubuntu-8.04/Slackware-12.2(both are Labs).
I started a website named multidistro.com to share my knowledge and have a place to hopefully advance
the multidistro thing and the portable-OS-Qemu ideas.
I ask alot of questions.
So, the USB topic; I posted on here about running TC off USB and why was I getting chown error messages when booting(fat32).(
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1683.0 )
The apps either wouldn't restore or gave an error but ran correctly otherwise.
At the suggestions of sensei Roberts, Juanito, Curaga and a helpful member here; Guy, I installed TC to a EXT3 formatted USB(2GB), and used the article here to install grub after dis-connecting my HD
( [removed due to policy violation]/instau.html )
So, very good@!
All went well and so i started tricking it out-
I transported a qemu-made vhd named hda to my usb, and also made a tclocal file with the tce's in the tce folder.
I then booted up TC-Portable-2.0rc2.1 which is the only one besides Okajima-2.0rc1 that works in Linux using portable qemu?sad.
I accessed the "hda" vhd with TC-portable ( ) and planted my tce's/mydata.gz to the vhd and used the bootcode to access it.
So, here's the TC USB grub menu off my 2GB EXT3 USB that I'm running off of now, jammin Slayer and banging out this post!
default 0
timeout 10
waitusb=5
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tce/restore-sda1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet restore=sda1 tce=sda1 waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tce/restore-sda1/tcvd)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sda1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sdb1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sdb1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sdc1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sdc1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sdd1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sdd1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sde1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sde1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sdf1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sdf1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tcvd-sdg1)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tcvd=sdg1/hda restore=tcvd tce=tcvd waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
title TinyCore-1.4.3 (tclocal-autofind)
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet waitusb=5
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
Also, by using EXT3/Grub the USB is seen as the 1st HD(hd0,0), so you can boot off USB on Most PC's that won't boot off USB
by using the TC bootfloppy or a Plop BootManager bootfloppy/boot.iso (
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html).
Most cool, as this works on a laptop which doesn't boot off USB and a PC (Emachines above) which won't boot a FAT32 USB even with bootfloppy.etc.
OK, part 2 FAT32 USB improvements-
I posted before that I was having issues with the tce's on my 4GB FAT32 USB with chown errors etc.
I did get it to work but would still get the chown errors even though everything seemed to work fine.
So, I tried using the tcvd option and now it boots fast and error-free from the FAT32 USB also!
Screenshot of EXT3 USB playing tc-2.0rc2.1 on portable qemu (why doesn't 1.4.3 work with portable qemu?) (
http://multidistro.com/shots/screenshot_05.27_20:37:39.png )
I am going to upload both versions to my site when done, as the 1.4.2 version there now is flawed.
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