Just downloaded and made boot disk of TinyCore 6.0 after reading over all the stuff on the web site. Trying to get it to boot on my macbook pro 2,2 from DVD. When I reboot the machine and hold the "apple" key to give me boot options, it tries ever so hard to mount the disc and fails.
Here's what happens, step by step:
1. reboot, holding apple key.
2. disc spins for a while (a minute or less)
3. disc ejects
4. computer boots from hard drive.
When the machine boots from hard drive, OSx, I can take a look at the disc and all looks just fine. I don't have a PC to attempt booting this disc with.
I do have a copy of Ubuntu 14.04 on disc, and my computer will recognize it as bootable, but can't actually load Ubuntu. This old computer just won't do it.
The bottom line is, I want to make this old macbook useful for a couple more years if at all possible. Can TinyCore do it for me?
The functionality I need is:
Spreadsheets
Word Processing
MP3 and streaming audio
Silverlight (for netflix, amazon VOD, etc.)
Should I keep playing with this old relic, or get the shovel out?
Thanks!