Hello everyone

[Luix]

Hello, everyone. Love the distro, love the concept. I'm still taking baby steps in it, but i have a question. I am using it in an old laptop, already configured to my taste (almost), but when i take the USB pen and use it in another PC, it boots like a live distro, ignoring all my modifications. Does it recognize the hardware and saves the user file accordingly?

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[polikuo]

Does your USB stick has a "tce" directory ?
How does your boot code look like ?
What boot loader do you use ?

If you're on either x86 or x64 platform
Using the respected "tc-install" / "tc-install64" is recommended

You will find many useful tips in the core book
http://tinycorelinux.net/corebook.pdf

[Misalf]

Hi
User files are not stored based on hardware.
If the tce directory is not specified via boot code, Core will search for it on available partitions.
Maybe your USB pen wakes up too slowly for this process and/or you have multiple tce dirs Core might find during boot.
Try adding these boot codes to your boot managers config (substitute FOOBAR with your USB pen's partition label).

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waitusb=10:LABEL="FOOBAR" tce=LABEL="FOOBAR"/tce


[Luix]

It's 32 bit, syslinux, no bootcode and i only have one tce directory. The desktop in which it boots to live is newer than the laptop where I costumized it, but i will try your bootcode to see if in fact the problem is in the slow USB.

Thanks, people

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[Luix]

I've finally tested, retested and it seems to be working fine with your bootcodes. In fact, without the 5 sec wait (10 sec was too long)  it randomly booted to base or to tce. With the 5 sec wait and the path defined it boots straight to were i want.
I thought that slow machines didn't applied to USB sticks, but it also seems to be relevant.

[Luix]

Also, only by curiosity, has anyone ever build xbmc/Kodi to Tiny? It would kick openelec, fast and with DE...

---> sudo apt-get install \m/ (°-°) \m/

[coreplayer2]

Hi Luix, glad you got it figured out.

However,  providing sufficient delay has been given using the "waitusb" bootcode, then max number of seconds is irrelevant.   The boot process will continue immediately after a USB (waitusb=10) or the specified USB (with UUID, or Label eg; waitusb=10:LABEL="MYUSB")  has been found.   10 seconds is never too long, you'll understand if you watch the countdown.

[Luix]

Didn't know that, but it makes sense. Thanks, i'll update the bootcode. Now for something completely different, trying to read the book step by step

---> sudo apt-get install \m/ (°-°) \m/

[Juanito]

Here's the list of deps:

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Build-Depends: autoconf, automake, autopoint, autotools-dev, cmake, curl,
  default-jre, gawk, gperf, libao-dev, libasound2-dev,
  libass-dev (>= 0.9.8), libavahi-client-dev, libavahi-common-dev, libbluetooth-dev,
  libbluray-dev (>= 0.7.0), libbz2-dev, libcap-dev,
  libcdio-dev, libcec-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl-dev,
  libcwiid-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libegl1-mesa-dev, libfontconfig-dev, libfreetype6-dev,
  libfribidi-dev, libgif-dev (>= 4.1.6), libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev,
  libiso9660-dev, libjpeg-dev, libltdl-dev, liblzo2-dev, libmicrohttpd-dev,
  libmodplug-dev, libmpcdec-dev, libmysqlclient-dev, libnfs-dev,
  libpcre3-dev, libplist-dev, libpng12-dev | libpng-dev, libpulse-dev, librtmp-dev,libsdl2-dev,
  libshairplay-dev, libsmbclient-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libssh-dev, libssl-dev, libswscale-dev,
  libtag1-dev (>= 1.8), libtinyxml-dev (>= 2.6.2), libtool, libudev-dev,
  libusb-dev, libva-dev, libvdpau-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxml2-dev,
  libxmu-dev, libxrandr-dev, libxslt1-dev, libxt-dev, libyajl-dev (>=2.0), lsb-release,
  nasm [!amd64], python-dev, python-imaging, python-support, swig, unzip, uuid-dev, yasm,
  zip, zlib1g-dev

[Luix]

That's a lot of deps, lol! Good to know if someone later on tries to build it...

---> sudo apt-get install \m/ (°-°) \m/

[Juanito]

kodi (xbmc) posted to corepure64 repo

[coreplayer2]

I can't hardly wait for Server maintenance to be finished just to try this

thanks Juanito

[Juanito]

Don't say thanks too soon, it's likely to be quite rough 

Note that you'll need to update the pcre and taglib extensions.

[coreplayer2]

It's a tough extension to put together, I'm sure it'll be awesome.  We used to have it I tc-4.x iirc


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[Luix]

No 64bit laptop... But nice work!

---> sudo apt-get install \m/ (°-°) \m/