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System-RescueCD and UEFI surprise!
nick65go:
Good for you that you "discovered" the hot water.
This is a Tinycore forum (in the end) so your "lessons" should apply to TC also. Which is NOT the case.
The fact that YOUR physical machines (Assus or UNC) have a relaxed FIRMWARE, which do not check for "ESP type" partition, but only for fat32, is not relevant to 90% of other users.
Also, I prefer to do not waste 17+ GB of my USB for a FAT32 partition, when an EXTREMELY small FAT (floppy size) partition can boot UEFI64. I prefer more ext2 size space on USB.
DD or COPY (both in busybox) does not matter for me, it is just a command line, it runs in few seconds.
And you are "lucky" that your ISO root has an /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI, so you can copy it into the root of a fat partition. So yeah, this System-RescueCD "system" is better to copy it on a USB. Indeed, if you just want UEFI, why use an ISO format.
[TC64 is also for BIOS/UEFI64, and booting from CDROM, your goal is narrow in this post]. Thanks for sharing.
PDP-8:
Well, nothing says that after the installation, that one can't shrink the fat32 partition, and add more/different of their own.
And for me, these are utility, not working environment sticks, so it is a matter of convenience.
Also note that as utilities, most all of them have the tools to DIY a TC stick using nothing more than two TC distribution files to have total control and size. Then put the utility stick back in the drawer.
But if you like this, see the pattern I discovered in the Clonezilla utility..
nick65go:
well, if we talk about an utility USB, nomad and suitable for other machines, then maybe you want a small kernel (less RAM, but integrated modules /net/fat/ntfs etc) and small utilities (in addition to busybox). How about this "rescue system", even linked to uclib or musl?
http://www.giannone.ch/rescue/current/
gadget42:
@nick65go
thanks for the link!
re:
https://www.giannone.ch/rescue/current/
also see:
https://www.giannone.ch/data/index.html
PDP-8:
Very interesting. I note that it will auto-expand the partition upon first boot. It is also hanging back with kernel 5.8 solely because of the loss of the scrollback mechanism with later kernels. Probably not an issue for many super super modern gear, but there is that roadblock if it stays this way down the road.
I think it wise though to remember that Tiny Core is simply that - a small "core" that only stays that way if you do not do ANYthing else to it, which 99% of the demographics is going to do - make it bigger with additions.
Tiny is good, but if size is the only thing we are concerned about, it is a matter of subjective degree.
Ie, if I wanted to go crazy, I'd be petitioning Juanito to immediately recompile busybox and remove all those shell and fileutils that could easily be handled by sed/awk/grep combinations.
head , tail, even vi since one can get by using nothing more than cat-ing herefiles.
Heh, so how hard-core do we want to get? :)
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