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What program do you use to burn a Tiny Core ISO in a CD-R?
Mauricio:
--- Quote from: jazzbiker on February 06, 2024, 04:34:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mauricio on February 06, 2024, 04:22:03 PM ---I didn't understand the last part, what do you mean by dd-ing the InstantCore.img? That sounds interesting.
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It means that an image is written to the drive with the help of dd utility. As far as I understand You have Debian up and running. Are You not familiar with dd utility? Sorry, I didn't catch the question.
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I have a Debian based distro, yeah. I never used DD before, I'm a beginner in Linux world haha, but it will be my next try. I will learn to use DD, I don't want to bother you with it.
I already downloaded the InstantCore image. If I understand correctly, DD has an option to "install" that image to a plugged HDD?
jazzbiker:
Nothing in Your posts prompted that You are new to Linux :-) Sure, it is very useful utility and You can easily find a lot of descriptions and use cases. You are absolutely right, I meant it in the sense of writing of the image directly to the drive.
I should warn You to be very careful while selecting the target (of=/dev/sd?), dd should be run as root, so writing to an incorect target may cause the disaster. You'd better describe the steps You'll make to determine the target drive here in the topic before executing.
jazzbiker:
The final step will be
--- Code: ---sudo dd if=InstantCore.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
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where big X will determine the drive which will be totally rewritten with InstantCore.img without any chances to be recovered.
CNK:
Post Part One (working around forum errors)
I think you're barking up the wrong tree with the CD burner software and different drives. If you can read the burnt Tiny Core CD-Rs with any computer other than the one you burnt them with, then the reading issue shouldn't exist for the old computer either.
I suggest it's a problem with the CD booting implementation in the BIOS, as this is quite common with PCs of that vintage. The answer is to boot to a bootable floppy disk which has its own CD boot loader software, then boot the CD with that. The Plop Boot Manager works to boot CD-Rs written with TC ISOs on the old Pentium 1 PC that I'm posting from now. Write the floppy image to a floppy disk with dd or a Windows floppy image writer program, boot to that floppy, then select "CDROM/DVD" from its snazzy-looking boot options menu.
CNK:
Post Part Two
With the HDD, some BIOSs are limited in the CHS specs of the drives they can support. Often there are work-arounds, maybe with reduced storage space, but it depends on the BIOS. People often have success with IDE to CF card adapters too.
PS. Jeeze do these internal server errors seem to be biting me hard here lately! People are posting many replies before I can figure out why I can't post my own. I guess they're a "won't fix" issue though, since CentralWare deleted to section about forum errors... Very frustrating!
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