Hello everyone,
I'm new on this forum and I'm new to Tiny Core (pretty new to linux also..). I spent the last days doing a manual install on a very old laptop (48MB ram, 10GB hdd) following this guide:
http://tinycorelinux.net/install_manual.html (with some adjustments).
I managed to get things to work. I got to install packages like xorg and openssh and get them to work.
My problem came when I run out of space for extensions, since I create a 100MB partition on the hard drive for the system (I merely followed the guide to keep things simple).
...I wiped everithing and did again the guide, this time making a 1GB boot partition.. Again, it works fine and I'm able to perform stuff, but it seems like there's a problem, since I see the same amount of space avaiable as the first install using
df command:
tc@box:/$ df
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 36.6M 12.7M 23.9M 35% /
tmpfs 20.4M 0 20.4M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 87.1M 69.1M 13.3M 84% /mnt/sda1
/dev/loop0 232.0K 232.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/ncurses
/dev/loop1 28.0K 28.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/cfdisk
/dev/loop2 140.0K 140.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/kmaps
/dev/loop3 28.0K 28.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/popt
/dev/loop4 1.8M 1.8M 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/openssl
/dev/loop5 16.0K 16.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libffi
/dev/loop6 128.0K 128.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/gamin
/dev/loop7 1.4M 1.4M 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/glib2
/dev/loop8 756.0K 756.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/gcc_libs
/dev/loop9 68.0K 68.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/expat2
/dev/loop10 396.0K 396.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/dbus
/dev/loop11 152.0K 152.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libavahi
/dev/loop12 240.0K 240.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libcups
/dev/loop13 64.0K 64.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/samba3-libs
/dev/loop14 33.4M 33.4M 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/samba3
/dev/loop15 92.0K 92.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libedit
/dev/loop16 2.0M 2.0M 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/openssh
/dev/loop17 56.0K 56.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/dosfstools
/dev/sda3 7.9G 176.9M 7.8G 2% /media/mio
This line:
/dev/sda1 87.1M 69.1M 13.3M 84% /mnt/sda1...that value is giving me trouble, I need more space in order to install more extensions.
Here's what cfdisk says instead:
cfdisk (util-linux 2.19.1)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 10056130560 bytes, 10.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 1222
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot Primary ext3 1019.94
sda2 Primary swap 509.97
sda3 Primary vfat 8526.23*
...from here it seems alright, from my perspective (during installation I created a swap partition and devolved the remaining to a fat32 partition)
here's fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1222 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 124 995998+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 125 186 498015 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 187 1223 8326395 b Win95 FAT32
Any help would be apreciated. Thanks in advance.