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tobiaus:

--- Quote from: kihoma on April 28, 2009, 09:39:17 AM ---I think that, instead of using tinycore to something it was not designed to (as the admins said), you could give Debian a try.

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it certainly is a nice way to run debian / ubuntu, and i am doing basically the same thing. i'd rather use tc though, the main reason i'm using ubuntu is i haven't got wireless running in tc yet. i use tc on setups where it's reasonable to use wired eth.

San:
Sorry for bringing this topic up.

I've been trying to install Core on USB Pendrive.
1. Boot Core CD
2. Create partition
3. Move / to new partition (without proc, sys, tmp, mnt...)
4. Manually create partitions
5. Copy grub directory, vmlinuz
6. Prepare menu.lst and install grub

On regular HDD it works well (in virtualbox), but i need to install it on USB Pendrive.
I made it all in VirtualBox, convert hdd image with 'VBoxManage internalcommands  converttoraw NewVirtualDisk1.vdi tc.raw'.
Rawwrite to pendrive 'dd if=tc.raw of=/dev/sdb'.

It boots while adding initrd (core.gz). After removing it - not. I tried to recompile kernel disabling modules (so it is monolithic 12MB kernel), but still can not get it.

Any help, please?

Lee:
Wow... This thread was almost as long dead as "SCO vs. IBM".    :)

Much has changed with core since the previous posting in this thread... but not the general feeling about "scatter mode" installations.

There are users here, myself included, who regularly boot from a USB stick with a frugal installation in preference to booting from HD.

Can you tell us what you have in mind for this USB stick?  Is there a constraint that precludes using a regular Core installation?

theYinYeti:
Hi San! I don’t know what it is that you want to do with your USB flash drive. You might be interested in this article I wrote:
http://yeti.selfip.net/cms/index.php/post/2013/05/08/Bootable-flash-drive-for-both-Linux-and-Windows%3A-part-1

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: San on June 24, 2013, 06:40:09 AM ---I tried to recompile kernel disabling modules (so it is monolithic 12MB kernel), but still can not get it.

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Congratulations, you managed to build a kernel which is 60% larger than the base OS :D

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