dCore-install issues

[kevinfish]

Hi, I can't seem to make dCore-install work.

I booted off a usb drive and I want to install to the entire hard drive.

Problem is I can't seem to make my usb drive (sdb) contain the tce directory so I can install dCore-install in such a way that I can make my sda drive the target drive for the frugal install.

It appears that sdb has the boot dir on it so I get a device error when I try and mount sdb1

If I keep the tce dir on sda1 then I can't make it a target for the install because its already mounted.

Help!?!?

[kevinfish]

okay, now I've just imported/loaded dCore-install non-persistently and when I run it, after I put in the boot params it says Device size reported to be zero... and fails 

[sm8ps]

Maybe the wiki can be helpful:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:installations

There is a complete walk-through for an installation on USB-stick with persistence and all:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:usb_installation_test-drive

[kevinfish]

Are you saying dCore-install isn't the tool to use?

I was trying to follow that page but it really wasn't helpful.  For instance,

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:usb_installation_test-drive#first_boot

says to boot into grub2 in order to write the boot sector on your usb drive.  I didn't have to do that cuz I just dd'ed the ISO over to it and it booted fine.   Now it doesn't appear that the boot sector of that boots into grub2.

So you're saying either I either have to debug dCore-install or I have to do it all manually with syslinux?

Not that I'm above doing that, but I'm kind of shocked that dCore doesn't have a working automatic installer considering that seems like it would be job one for any semi-viable distro.

[kevinfish]

okay, so even from this page:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html

I installed the line

echo 1 > /sys/block/$DEVICE/device/rescan

Right after the hdparm -Z line (in order to try and find another way to rescan the partition table) and still no love   

It must be something to do with how the partition table gets created

still looking

[kevinfish]

okay, I think I found a workaround

partition the disk manually (I used a single partition with the default linux type 0x83)

sudo su

copy the (wrongly named) dCore<jessie,etc...>.gz and vmlinuz<jessie,etc...> files to root.  I found mine in /mnt/sdb1/boot

sce-import dCore-install

sce-load dCore-install

dCore-install

select frugal install to the partition file system type ext2 and add your boot flags

reboot and install your stuff