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Offline leifanator

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Having problems installing tiny core --
« on: October 12, 2010, 07:08:31 PM »
I have tiny core running on an i686 virtualbox sim.  The virtual hard drive is 8 GB which expands when full.  I have installed the required cfdisk, and grub.

There are 2 partitions which I have written to the virtual hard drive:

hda1     boot     primary    linux                           7998.98 MB
hda2                 primary    linux swap / solaris      590.93 MB

I have tried the following commands:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1

mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

mkfs.ext4 /dev/hda1


I did everything the installation tutorial told me to do.  Help would be appreciated.

Thank you!
« Last Edit: October 12, 2010, 07:17:29 PM by leifanator »
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 07:19:18 PM »
OK, so what is the problem?
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Offline leifanator

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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 07:22:02 PM »
 when I type in mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1, it says there is no such device.
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Offline leifanator

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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 07:25:06 PM »
never mind, I restarted it then it worked.
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Offline leifanator

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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 07:28:13 PM »
Crap, now I have another problem.  When I do rebuildfstab, it say permission denied.  Is this normal, because I didn't see a root terminal option.
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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 07:30:27 PM »
use sudo.
sudo rebuildfstab
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Offline maro

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Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 07:32:58 PM »
and likewise: sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1
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