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HOWTO: Install and tweak Tiny Core for Dell mini-9
linuxnovo:
I am attempting to install tiny core on my dell mini-9 using these instructions. This netbook has 512 ram and an flash drive with 8g memory. My major linux is Linux Mint 7.
I used the Mint to make the tiny and tce/optional directories as required at / level in sda1. I populated the
tiny directory with bzImage and tinycore.gz as required. Next, using nano at root, I edited the file at
/boot/grub/menu.lst as follows:
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
title Tiny Core Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /tiny/bzImage quiet tce=sda1 home=sdb1 opt=sdb1 nodhcp
initrd /tiny/tinycore.gz
The result on booting from the Tiny Core line in the boot menu was:
A good boot to the first desktop. But the appbrower would not connect. I was wired to the ethernet.
An examination of the net in the system stat revealed that only a lo channel existed.
I used exit to shutdown the system. As predicted, an error came up as the system tried back itself up in tce. I unchecked the backup box and it closed down.
I went back into Mint and modified the menu.lst file and removed the nodhcp boot option on the theory that the system was not seeking the net connection because of this. Rebooted into core again and found that the appsbrowser was now connecting as I thought it would. I then installed nano, firefox, and abiword which were installed without any problem. I did notice that core was checking tce so see if the app had been installed before downloading and installing the requested app. I was encouraged. The icon for both firefox and abiword appeared on the Destop which was again encouraging. However, clicking on both icons produced absolutely nothing, a big zero! Using the run command in the control panel gave the same result. However, I was able to run nano with the xterm without any problem. On several, reboots, nothing was saved in tce directory and all of my apps had to reinstalled.
That is where I am right now. I really need some help. Thanks!
gutmensch:
Heya,
I splitted off your post because you obviously have other problems than those people with the ASUS eee series ;-)
From googling around I found that you should have a builtin RTL8102E pci express fast ethernet device, which should work with the r8169.ko.gz module. Why did you use the nodhcp option? Do you use static adresses and entered it yourself or did you miss that? Otherwise did you try a 'sudo ifconfig eth0 up'? In either case it's very clear that you won't have any connection with that nodhcp option.
He doesn't seem to recognize your sd card either but that's another problem.
gerald_clark:
That sd card likely requires a waitusb=10 boot option.
linuxnovo:
Heya,
I splitted off your post because you obviously have other problems than those people with the ASUS eee series ;-)
From googling around I found that you should have a builtin RTL8102E pci express fast ethernet device, which should work with the r8169.ko.gz module. Why did you use the nodhcp option? Do you use static adresses and entered it yourself or did you miss that? Otherwise did you try a 'sudo ifconfig eth0 up'? In either case it's very clear that you won't have any connection with that nodhcp option.
He doesn't seem to recognize your sd card either but that's another problem.
Thanks for reposting. On reading the original, I thought it was a general tutorial for all netbooks with minor changes necessary. Right, I do have a problem. I will restore the original bootline with nodhcp option in it. Will try the "'sudo ifconfig eth0 up'" command. You might be right, I may be stuck in "lo". The problem is that I don't have a home ethernet connection and have to borrow a friends. Most of the time I am using free wireless at the library. So I was just trying to install the tc on the hard drive and get wcid working and all my apps in a persistent mode. By the way, the mint 7 has worked great on my dell mini 9 for more than a year. I wrote the forum note on the netbook using mint 7 with free library wireless so the wireless on the netbook is fine. I really like TC alot, because I hate the "everything but
the kitchen sink" that most linux distros are becoming. I like the idea of starting from a good, fast core and building what you need. I want to install TC on all of my linux laptops. This netbook was the first trial and it really needs a small distro since it only has 512megs of Ram and no hard drive, 8 gigs in Flash. By the way, everything works perfectly when booted from the CD. (correct that, I have not tried to access the SD flash memory however.) I will go over to my friend's ethernet tonight and try to access the flash drive from CD booting and also try to get the ethernet going from hard drive boot. Let you know how it works out.
linuxnovo
linuxnovo:
I will leave the persistence problem until later.
First, I have removed the nodhcp in the book line and added waitusb=10.
I have booted up with ethernet cable in place and have a working appbrowser.
Have installed the following small extentions:
Jed, nano as text editors, commandline no incon in tray.
midori and arora gui browsers and an icon each in the tray panel
clicking on the midori and arora incons does nothing.
at command line (terminal) we now try the extentions
nano just works......no problem.....good so far
Jed does not work.... nor does arora and midori we already know this from the gui click.
however, the command line gives us the following error message:
error while loading shared libraries libslang.so.2 cannot open shared object file no such file or directory
What is needed here they are telling us is that a .so file is missing. this is a program for sh shell. (I am
used to the bash shell, so I am a little confused here)
with arora, same message with libOtWebKit.so.4. Another missing sh program.
with midori same thing: this time libunique-1.0.so.0.
Now, with a fresh cd boot. all of these work, somehow the hard disk install is not placing software in the
right place.
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