manual installation

[jp48]

Hi all,

I am using a bit older Amilo LA1703 with AMD processor, 1GB RAM. Not being completely newbie with various Linux distros, I would like to do installation manually (for some reason TC installer do not copy the files to my currently running Ubuntu 11.04, it makes directory but it is empty). As I already installed Ubuntu and solved various problems with audio + WIFI, I don't need to start scratch with them, so I downloaded both TinyCore and CorePlus ISO files. To know if I am right track, before installing I will describe here what I am going to do (frugal installation to my Ubuntu):

1. create /tinycore folder with subfolders boot/ and tce/
2. copying kernel + filesystem (core.gz, vmlinuz) to /tinycore/boot folder
3. copying ndiswrapper-1.59.tazpkg (+ few other packages) to /tinycore/tce folder
4. edit Grub (legacy),  /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add lines:

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menuentry 'TinyCore on /dev/sda1' {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /tinycore/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 tce=sda1/tinycore/tce quiet
initrd /tinycore/boot/core.gz
}

5. sudo update-grub

Am I right track ? I am not sure about Extensions, in what format they should be, I assume TC package format (.tazpkg).

Thanks for advance any tips etc. !!

-Jukka

[Juanito]

If you have a wired Internet connection, it would be better to download the *.tcz extensions from the command line, once booted, with "tce-load -w extension_name".

This will ensure any required dependencies are also downloaded.

[Lee]

3. copying ndiswrapper-1.59.tazpkg (+ few other packages) to /tinycore/tce folder

the tcz files should go into /tinycore/tce/optional/

[coreplayer2]

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menuentry 'TinyCore on /dev/sda1' {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /tinycore/boot/vmlinuz tce=sda1/tinycore/tce quiet
initrd /tinycore/boot/core.gz
}


I think the above is all that is needed in grub

[curaga]

tazpkg? TC and Slitaz are not compatible.

[jp48]

Hi,

Thanks all the replies, going to test today. And realized that tazpkg's were from Slitaz, yes, I know they're not compatible, just mixed them and have deleted Slitaz packages (it didn't work at all, kernel panic) and replace them with TC packages. I have mounted CorePlus ISO to get packages, going to test tce-load command line to get WIFI up, let's see what happens .


-Jukka