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Troubles installing 14.0
jazzbiker:
Hi nurbles,
1. I propose to use dd only. No enhancements, no bonus tracks.
2. In Your previous post You named the core path as /mnt/sdb1/boot. Have You rechecked whether core.gz really is there? I use TinyCore in nomadic manner, so I can't recheck it by myself.
3. A few years ago when I was starting with TC I used installer, mostly text mode. If I am not mistaken one choice point - something like "would You use the whole disk" - leaded to not successful installations. Have You read the Corebook's chapter about installation process?
4. Very nice description of distribution files based installation - http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,19364.0.html. Have You read it? It describes dual boot mode for USB installation, but it can be easily applied to local hard drive, I guess.
PS
By the way I've booted CorePure64-14.0.iso in qemu and I was not able to find the path to core.gz ...
jazzbiker:
--- Quote from: jazzbiker on July 18, 2023, 03:43:12 PM ---By the way I've booted CorePure64-14.0.iso in qemu and I was not able to find the path to core.gz ...
--- End quote ---
Oops, I was to mount /dev/sr0 ... And in /mnt/sr0/boot the files were located.
nurbles:
Well, thanks for the ideas, sadly I haven't gotten much farther.
Still working with current (14.0)...
* Rufus in 'dd' mode: No new results
* Changed BIOS to boot in LEGACY mode only: Same end results, but the USB boot 'looks' better and the GUI installer (from CorePlus) works as expected. Unable to install to an existing partition because the USB boot locks the existing partition for some reason and I cannot figure out any way to un-mount it.
* Tried using UNetbootin instead of Rufus: No new results
* Did internet search for 'corebook' and did not find what I expected. Eventually found the "Book" link on the TC home page (yes, sometimes I'm a bit slow) and re-read the installing section. I noticed that there is exactly ZERO help if something goes wrong. Not a hint about how to determine and/or correct the problem. Oh well. Oh, FWIW, my most recent attempt, using a CorePlus image followed every step exactly as the book showed it ... except for the last one: Instead of booting into TC, the machine boots to a black screen, then boots to a black screen, etc....
* I followed the link to the other forum discussion and read through (at least until it got contentious later on). I'm not really interested in something that requires so much hands-on effort just to get installed. That said, if a TC developer wants me to try a procedure of some sort, please let me know -- but be aware, I'm limited to using either a WSL Ubuntu 18 on Windows or reinstalling Ubuntu (or whatever) on my TC target machine if I need to use linux to build the stuff necessary.Also FWIW, I tried installing Ubuntu on the same hardware and it worked flawlessly. However it takes an eternity to boot, which I why I was trying to use TC as it boots quite quickly. When it boots at all.
Sadly, I think I'm going to look at and try out some of the other minimal linux distros to see if I can any of them to work on my hardware. I'll check back here just in case someone has an epiphany, but I need to make forward progress on this project (I have a deadline to meet, after all.) :)
jazzbiker:
Hi nurbles,
Prior to landing on TinyCore I was playing with Puppy Linux. Maybe it will be of interest for You. Nowadays the only minimalistic distro I know is Void Linux. If we are talking about using of some default installer and applying zero efforts. There are a plenty of others but kick-staring them may require some efforts applied.
Good luck!
nurbles:
My problem isn't the work, it is that my installation will be "interesting", as in, "May you live in interesting times." That's why I prefer to have a standard installer & associated process that "just works."
Also, I tried Puppy, but apparently it is too complex for me as it, too, refused to boot after being installed to the SSD. It also felt slow, at least compared to TC. I tried Q40S, too, and it installed and booted fine, but it was the slowest option I've encountered so far (other than a full Ubuntu Server.)
I've currently got Proteus linux installed and it boots (and reboots) very quick, though it includes far more stuff than I have any need of or any use for. That's the other reason I would prefer TC: It can be installed with almost nothing included and that's just about everything I need! :)
I'll probably spend another day trying various combinations and maybe I will come up with one that works for TC. I need to codify the attempts I've made and compare that to all of the permutations I can imagine to ensure I've tried everything -- maybe I've missed the golden combination for my hardware. Fingers crossed.
Thanks again to everyone for providing hints, ideas and suggestions!
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