[SOLVED] NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run

[Stone.Giant]

Home is in  RAM.  Use your hard drive.

What about if i save in /usr/local, will be it still in RAM? Does all linux distros's Home directory stored in RAM? I have begin a sad realization here about how Linux utilize RAM as storage not as medium between apps and kernels.

[Rich]

Hi Stone.Giant

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What about if i save in /usr/local, will be it still in RAM?Yes.

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Does all linux distros's Home directory stored in RAM?No. You might want to consider setting up a persistent home directory. Have you taken the time to read this:
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

[Stone.Giant]

No. You might want to consider setting up a persistent home directory. Have you taken the time to read this:
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

Thanks for the manual. BTW in Tinyfun's thread he mentioned that u are a keeper of Nvidia extension. Do you still have that extensions that i could use?

[Rich]

Hi Stone.Giant

BTW in Tinyfun's thread he mentioned that u are a keeper of Nvidia extension.

I built the 96.43.20 extension. Most of the NVidia extensions were built by Arslan S.

Do you still have that extensions that i could use?

The extension I built does not support your card, see:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/nvidia-96.43.20-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz.info
You might want to read through this thread:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12965.msg71206.html#msg71206
You will also find the build scripts I used in reply #8.

[coreplayer2]

I was able to build version 304.125 (for legacy cards).
I removed  /usr/lib/*tls*.*
and I think to remember the installer is confused about
/user/local/lib/X11/
vs
/user/local/lib/xorg/

Misalf I believe you're right about the X11 vs Xorg confusion..   I just built nvidia.ko version-346.72
now to begin testing..

[Stone.Giant]

If I do a persistent storage bootcode, will my file automatically transferred to hdd?

[Rich]

Hi Stone.Giant

If I do a persistent storage bootcode, will my file automatically transferred to hdd?

Yes. Before you start, copy your  tce/mydata.tgz  to  tce/mydata.tgz.original. This way you have a backup in case you mess up.
Add the  home=sda2  boot code. Reboot your machine. Edit your  /opt/,filetool.lst  file and remove any entries listing home.
Run a backup. Do another reboot to verify your home is persistent.

[Stone.Giant]

Hi Stone.Giant

If I do a persistent storage bootcode, will my file automatically transferred to hdd?

Yes. Before you start, copy your  tce/mydata.tgz  to  tce/mydata.tgz.original. This way you have a backup in case you mess up.
Add the  home=sda2  boot code. Reboot your machine. Edit your  /opt/,filetool.lst  file and remove any entries listing home.
Run a backup. Do another reboot to verify your home is persistent.

I already performed a persistent storage bootcode, i did backup my mydata.tgz.original and deleted all entries with /home in filetool.lst, but all my files are completely wiped out and did not transfer to hdd. Also my Seamonkey browser malfunctioned because it was originally stored in ~/tc directory. How can I determine now if it uses the hdd as storage?

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[tc@box:~$ df -hT /
Filesystem           Type            Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs               rootfs        907.1M     96.7M    810.4M  11% /
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[code]tc@box:~$ seamonkey
libasound is already installed!
dbus-glib is already installed!
gtk2 is already installed!
/etc/sysconfig/tcedir/ondemand/seamonkey: line 3: /home/tc/seamonkey/seamonkey: not found


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tc@box:/mnt/sda2/tce$ showbootcodes
initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet home=sda2 swapfile={sda2} waitusb=5:UUID="3b489518-7cda-4146-b00c-4222fa977793" tce=UUID="3b489518-7cda-4146-b00c-4222fa977793" BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/boot/vmlinuz

sent usig fifth

[coreplayer2]

For home to be persistent without backing up home then you'll need to specify where to make home's permanent storage using a boot code.
your bootcodes indicate home is located on the same partition as a swapfile?? 
Also why use curly braces swapfile={sda2} ??    (I think swapfile=sda2 is correct)

for example, here I specify where to store my permanent home:   home=UUID="8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62"

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menuentry "TC-6-x86 Vesa" {
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62
linux /linux/vmlinuz-3166 tz=GMT quiet waitusb=5:UUID="8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62" tce=UUID="8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62"/tc6-x86 opt=UUID="8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62" home=UUID="8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62" mydata=mydata32.vesa
initrd /linux/rootfs-630.gz /linux/modules-3166.gz
}

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tc@box:~$ showbootcodes
BOOT_IMAGE=/linux/vmlinuz-3166 tz=GMT quiet waitusb=5:UUID=8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62 tce=UUID=8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62/tc6-x86 opt=UUID=8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62 home=UUID=8eb3e1f8-c1ee-2bac-f66d-070f73960f62 mydata=mydata32.vesa


[coreplayer2]

I returned to my last post to expand on the persistent home issue (but found my time was up and no longer able to edit!!) 
your bootcodes indicate home is located on the same partition as a swapfile??    A swapfile is for use when a fat filesystem is available, however home afaik can not reside on a fat partition.   So which is it??

[Stone.Giant]

My swapfile is sda1 formatted to swap partition and my home is sda2 formatted to ext4 using gparted. i'll check it out maybe I mistype my extrnsion when i reformatted my computer.

[coreplayer2]

Aaaaah ok so was a typo


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[Stone.Giant]

Yes. I have misspecified my swap partition when I reformatted my machine. Is there any side effects to it?

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tc@box:~$ showbootcodes
initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet home=sda2 swapfile={sda2} waitusb=5:UUID="3b489518-7cda-4146-b00c-4222fa977793" tce=UUID="3b489518-7cda-4146-b00c-4222fa977793" BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/boot/vmlinuz
tc@box:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1          66      525312  82 Linux swap
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2   *          66        9730    77624320  83 Linux

How can I verify Im using my HDD as persistent storage?

[Rich]

Hi Stone.Giant

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tc@box:~/guilib/grabber$ cat /proc/mounts | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 ext3 rw,relatime,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 rw,relatime,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda3 /opt ext3 rw,relatime,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered 0 0
tc@box:~/guilib/grabber$This shows my  home  and  opt  directories are persistent.

[Stone.Giant]

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tc@box:~$ cat /proc/mounts | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda2 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

My files were not transfer to hdd they were completely wiped out. I only backup mydata.tgz