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Problems Installing CorePlus 9.0 on a small machine

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Len E.:
The small (and very old) machine being used is a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop,
which has 266 MHz Pentium II processor, 128 MB memory, and a 6 GB
hard drive, partitioned with sda1 as 5.3 GB ext3, and sda2 as a 767 MB
swap partition.

In trying out the various installation options available on booting up
from a USB stick,  most failed by hanging up and not completing the
initial  Loading /boot/vmlinuz or Loading /boot/core.gz  steps.

The one procedure that worked was to select the command line only
configuration, and then immediately follow it with the command
tce-load -wi  Xorg-7.7 Xprogs Xlibs fluxbox wbar tc-install-GUI aterm,
and then the command startx.

I was then able to complete the frugal install command graphically,
but when trying to reboot the newly-installed system, the graphics
would not come up.

As a check, I tried the same approach with a CorePlus 8.2.1 stick,
but the tce-load command failed, not being able to find
repo.tinycorelinux.net.

On a much larger, newer machine, the approach with both the
CorePlus 9.0 and CorePlus 8.2.1 sticks worked just fine.

The most confusing aspect of all this is that after I reformatted the
sda1 partition on the Toshiba to ext3 after the initial CorePlus 9.0
install, the original procedure no longer worked for 9.0, hanging
up one of the initial Loading /boot steps, just like all the other
options.

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Documentation on Tiny Core system requirements suggests that
46mb is enough memory for installation, but maybe not for
CorePlus ?

I realize the Toshiba is a very marginal machine at best, but I'm
hoping to elicit some advice to make this work.

Len E.

coreplayer2:
Hello Len E

My advise on limited hardware is first; start with the smallest ISO then add extensions as needed.

Secondly, when you install to a USB thumb drive you’ll need to add the bootcode  waitusb= 

 Next, you’ll need to remove the “ cde “ bootcode from the boot config command line

Then you’ll need to inform tc via the boot config command line where to find installed extensions   tce=

See the Core book for examples for all the above

Additionally, I’d follow the same guide to verify the HDD installed boot config file and since the HDD and PC subsystem is old and slow I’d add the waitusb= bootcode using the uuid method to the command line for the HDD install aswell

Once you have installed to a usb thumb drive or HDD it’s best to remove the install CD from the drive


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coreplayer2:
The core book can be downloaded for free here http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html


It would help if you would show the output of

--- Code: ---showbootcodes
--- End code ---

curaga:

--- Quote --- hanging up and not completing the
initial  Loading /boot/vmlinuz or Loading /boot/core.gz  steps.
--- End quote ---
This means the bootloader failed for some reason. Try another bootloader; the installer uses extlinux, we have instructions for grub in the manual install page.

polikuo:
I just boot up this crap with TC 9.0 via extlinux bootloader.
With Xvesa, I have a working X window.
I believe your "laptop" hardware is better than that in general so it should boot.
How exactly did you update your system ?

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