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aus9:
Oops forgot to mention if you like to try my method, I will need to add a grub install into MBR

patrikg:
Some years ago i was writtning this thing, maybe this can help with some corrections.

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,20135.msg125292.html#msg125292

nurbles:
jazzbiker: Windows was previously installed, but I removed that SSD drive and replaced it with a brand new SSD drive for TinyCore.  As for existing partitions, I've always used the "full disk" (or is it "whole drive"?) option during install.  Since booting from USB (or CDROM) tends to leave /dev/sda1 locked in a way I cannot unmount, I've always needed to use a bootable GPartEd in between TinyCore install attempts in order to ensure all partitions are removed.

aus9:  Your method looks possible. Can it be run from a TinyCore system booted from USB?

FWIW, the application we need to run on the device could've easily used FreeDOS (with a TCP/IP extension).  I'm only mentioning this to show that our system requirements are miniscule.  We originally chose TinyCore for the first system we built (over ten years ago) because it was the barest minimum we could find, but we could add a secure shell for remote admin and come command line tools to make the remote management a little easier (like 'mc' and 'nano' which the folks at my company are all familiar with.)

At the moment, my work week is ending.  First thing Monday morning, I will start trying these new ideas.  Thanks!

jazzbiker:
Hi nurbles,
But as I said earlier it was the checkbox "whole disk" to not work properly when I used installer. Using existing partition was successful. Haven't You tried this way? It means that You create partition manually and then run installer.

aus9:
Hi

If you look at my install to a specified partition I make no attempt to use an installer. Patrikg method does appear to use installer. If your system allows usb boot up to TC, you can use a busybox version of wget.....that may need ca-certificates, I will test later, or you can use the full wget and not use ca-certicates to download your target image.

it looks like you want to use a fresh SSD for TC so for clean sake, when TC usb stick is in cloud mode, I would suggest we redo gparted to format that drive as fat32 before we put the dirs on it,
move files into the dirs....then create a grub.cfg instead of a 40_custom grub file and in cloud mode,
download grub to install grub into target SSD MBR.

I should with luck be able to give you step by steps this weekend and naturally I will test it.

x86 also known as 32 bit, may be on the way out for most distros but packages build tend to be smaller. Not all upstream coders support it. eg firefox

x86_64 also known as 64 bit. Always larger packages from same source but tends to offer better support upstream.

I do not have the skills of patrikg but have the good looks  ;D

EDIT I guess you need x86 for wifi as you have mentioned coreplus?
Is that the reason why you chose x86?
You can use an ethernet cable and choose x86_64 but we just have to download some firmware, some wifi module TCE and maybe some other TCEs

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