TC boot-floppy install from fat16 partition?

[coin]

My laptop has no CD-ROM drive and its BIOS does not support USB booting (USB v1.x on this).

Have already gone through the 'boot floppy' thread http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=928.msg5327;topicseen#msg5327, the 'HD install for special purpose.' thread http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=308.0, the 'Installing TC - Alternate Offline Guide' http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Installing+TC+-+Alternate+Offline+Guide&structure=Installing+TC and maybe one of two other related sites.

 I now have DSL running fine on this from a floppy disk and a FAT16 partition, using a Damn Small Linux 'Floppy Only Install with Netcard (Poormans Install)' http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Floppy_Only_Install_with_Netcard_%28Poormans_Install%29 ,.
No more room to repartition the drive for an ext2 or ex3 partition at hda8, hda9, ... etc.

Any way to download TC via DSL to the FAT16 partition, then download and configure a boot-loading floppy (with grub), and then use both of these together (just as for the Poormans Install) to load TinyCore ??

[Guy]

I have not installed Tiny Core on FAT16, but it is possible.

Create a directory called boot.

Download tinycore.gz and bzImage here.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/distribution_files/

Put them in the boot directory.

You could start with supergrub disk on floppy.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php?pid=6

Later you could install Grub on the hard drive.


How big is the hard drive?


Another option is to use plop to boot Tiny Core on a usb drive.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

[bigpcman]

My laptop has no CD-ROM drive and its BIOS does not support USB booting (USB v1.x on this).

Have already gone through the 'boot floppy' thread http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=928.msg5327;topicseen#msg5327, the 'HD install for special purpose.' thread http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=308.0, the 'Installing TC - Alternate Offline Guide' http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Installing+TC+-+Alternate+Offline+Guide&structure=Installing+TC and maybe one of two other related sites.

 I now have DSL running fine on this from a floppy disk and a FAT16 partition, using a Damn Small Linux 'Floppy Only Install with Netcard (Poormans Install)' http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Floppy_Only_Install_with_Netcard_%28Poormans_Install%29 ,.
No more room to repartition the drive for an ext2 or ex3 partition at hda8, hda9, ... etc.

Any way to download TC via DSL to the FAT16 partition, then download and configure a boot-loading floppy (with grub), and then use both of these together (just as for the Poormans Install) to load TinyCore ??

Here's another thread that offers some insight. Floppy boot tc from a usb stick. This will work with a hard drive as well once a partition has been created with the "boot directory". http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=354.msg2569#msg2569

[taz]

You can also boot TC from floppies *only* :

Get bzImage and tinycore.gz (or microcore.gz) from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/distribution_files/

Upload these files in http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/builder/index.php Linux kernel and initramfs, then click build floppy set.

Or use this script http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/raw-file/tip/linux/stuff/bootloader.sh

Note you can add a cpio archive with your configuration too.