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Offline alphons

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Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)
« on: January 13, 2023, 06:59:31 AM »
Successfully builded the latest kernel 6.1.5 for tineycore64 13.1
Screenshot attached.

Testing extensions samba and openssh, all working.
« Last Edit: January 13, 2023, 07:02:37 AM by alphons »
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Offline nick65go

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Re: Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2023, 02:11:21 PM »
wow, congratulation! but why? when we will have it soon, see the kernel + modules from:
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/tinycorelinux/14.x/x86_64/release/src/kernel/config-6.1.2-tinycore64

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Re: Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2023, 04:59:47 AM »
why?  8) I did not see any post of working on new kernel releases on this forum :o
You pointed out to the 14.x release, also that is not mentioned anywhere  :o
I think this is the first succesful running of tinycore64 kernel 6.1.5 to my knowledge.

I maintain/administer tinycore machines, all are running on intel esxi hosts.
In the process i always make the kernel/modules/rootfs as small as possible for my specific setup.
(hate docker, tinycore does a better job after all)
Was happy so see my first try on 6.1.5 compiling and running #1 version  ;D
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Re: Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2023, 06:58:18 AM »
Managed to get 6.1.6 up and running.

I just published my (private) isobuilder on github.
Also included the used .config files for different kernels.

What it does is;
  • getting the current TinyCore64 iso
  • getting the new linux kernel sources (kernel.org)
  • extracts iso
  • compiles kernel
  • compiles modules
  • installs new kernel and modules
  • creates new iso

This is only for the people who know what thet are doing ...  8)
The used .config files are made minimal for my use, they contain a few modules, mostly externel kernel and for runnng in vmware/esxi
Best is to do the r option ( make menuconfig) and add all the stuff you need.

There are NO patches applied to the sources.

https://github.com/alphons/TinyCore/tree/main/src

cheers
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Re: Building TinyCore64 kernel 6.1.5 succesful (vmware booting)
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2023, 09:33:31 AM »
Thank you for getting involving to build our great Linux dist.
And also share your experiences with that and also share it via github.