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NarakuITA:
I am not very experienced with fdisk. I struggled to understand how it works. I deleted everything and formatted. I did not create a swap partition because I do not know how. However, the problem persists. So I resumed gparted and entered two partitions for the operating system and swap. If I remember correctly Slitaz uses Grub as the bootloader and has no problems
Maybe I should try puppy linux, maybe it's simpler... I don't know...
I don't know which Linux operating system is best for this PC.

Stefann:
Well,…
Tbh… it’s not completely clear “what works and what not”.
In earlier posts you say you get the screens from the installer gui so I assume you have tiny core operational from a removable media?

If that is true: the installer in my experience creates a bootable disk, including bootloader and all. So.. if it does not boot next step is to check that the bios is configured from the media you try to boot from.

If not:
I don’t understand how you format your disk (if you have no os running how would you do that?).
And.. if you not use the tinycore install application you will need to manually create a bootsector and write master bootrecord and/or manually install and configure grub or syslinux.
Getting such manual bootloader working is quite a trick. It took me a full weekend to achieve that. It very much depends what existing is you use to create the bootable disk. Linux or windows.

NarakuITA:
So I'll leave it for now. Maybe I jumped too quickly into a complex operating system for beginners. I need to get some experience first.

NarakuITA:
So... Before you try to abandon the possibility of installing the system. I gave it one last try! And it was successful.
Using GParted from another linux distribution. I created an ext4 partition and a swap. After that, on the partition where I install Tiny, I set a flag, "Boot". I installed everything and the operating system now boots!
Now, here I need help because I can't do it alone, or the commands I enter are incorrect.
I need to set the keyboard to Italian and if there is a localization, I would like to set the language to Italian.
Once this is done, is it possible to install a simpler, Windows-style interface?

Stefann:
Which version did you install?
In order to have additional keyboards you need to install the plus version.
The standard windows manager is fwlm, the plus version gives you a choice of others. Still you cannot ‘just expect it to be like Microsoft windows”, tinycore website gives information which windows managers are available. (I use the base version that only has fwlm).
Now you have a working version you can easily install a different version using the onboard installer. That works like a charm. If it’s currently on harddisk I would not touch that but from there install on a usb and boot from usb. Once you have made multiple usb that can boot you can from that usb install agin on harddisk the version you want (and have multiple usb to go back to as backup)

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