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Juanito:
Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce that Tiny Core 8.0 Alpha1 is available for public testing:

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/8.x/x86/release_candidates/
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/8.x/x86_64/release_candidates/

This is an alpha level cut. If you decide to help test, then please test carefully. We don't want anyone to lose data.

Since this is an alpha cut, although the team has worked through several preview cuts, we ask that only experienced users test. This cut is not for general use. The features in any alpha are not fixed and may change before a public release candidate is available.

Most extensions have been copied over from the 7.x repo - note that the Xorg-7.7 extensions have been updated and the ncurses and readline extensions have changed major versions.

We appreciate testing and feedback.

If you use distribution files note that you need a new vmlinuz and core.gz (or rootfs.gz + modules.gz)

Changelog for 8.0 alpha1:
* busybox updated to 1.25.1
* kernel updated to 4.8.17
* glibc updated to 2.24
* gcc updated to 6.2.0
* e2fsprogs base libs/apps updated to 1.43.3
* util-linux base libs/apps updated to 2.28.2

polikuo:
Thank you Juanito, for your contribution to this wonderful system.
Just download and test it.
Here's the bug I found specifically for x86_64 platform.

The mke2fs, mkfs.ext* of the new kernel now create file systems with the metadata_csum and 64bit features enabled by default.
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Filesystem

The new binaries conflict with tc-install64, the script needs some fixing.

To install on a new disk, user should manually add "-O \^64bit" when formatting.

How I install tiny core manually:

--- Code: ---tce-load -w syslinux
tce-load -i syslinux
sudo su
fdisk /dev/sda
o
n
p
1
<just press enter twice to use the whole disk>
w
dd if=/usr/local/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
mkfs.ext4 -O \^64bit /dev/sda1
rebuildfstab
mount /mnt/sda1
mkdir -p /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux
cd /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux
extlinux -i .
cp /usr/local/share/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 /usr/local/share/syslinux/libcom32.c32 /usr/local/share/syslinux/libutil.c32 /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux/
cp /mnt/sr0/boot/vmlinuz64 /mnt/sr0/boot/corepure64.gz /mnt/sda1/boot/

--- End code ---
for installing boot loader.
Important, one must run mkfs.ext4 (or mke2fs) with "-O \^64bit"

FYI, here's my extlinux.conf:

--- Code: ---vi /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
--- End code ---

--- Quote ---DEFAULT 64
UI vesamenu.c32

LABEL 32
MENU LABEL 32-bit base
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
INITRD /boot/core.gz
APPEND quiet blacklist=pcspkr vga=788 lang=zh_TW.utf8 base norestore

LABEL 64
MENU LABEL 64-bit base
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz64
INITRD /boot/corepure64.gz
APPEND quiet blacklist=pcspkr vga=788 lang=zh_TW.utf8 base norestore

LABEL 32bk
MENU LABEL 32-bit backup
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
INITRD /boot/core.gz
APPEND quiet blacklist=pcspkr vga=788 lang=zh_TW.utf8 tce=UUID="1660e367-5775-4838-9d1a-2b6184e35e52"/tce32

LABEL 64bk
MENU LABEL 64-bit backup
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz64
INITRD /boot/corepure64.gz
APPEND quiet blacklist=pcspkr vga=788 lang=zh_TW.utf8 tce=UUID="1660e367-5775-4838-9d1a-2b6184e35e52"/tce64

--- End quote ---

Juanito:
Hmm - didn't know what (and I use grub anyway) - thanks.

Maybe you could eventually adjust tc-install64 and submit for the tc-8.x repo?

andyj:
I'm finding that lxterminal (and lilyterm) require libncurses.so.5, but the provided version is 6. Because aterm is hopelessly broken when using VMware, without a working terminal I'm basically dead in the water. Can you update lxterminal please?

curaga:
What happens with aterm?

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