Installation question

[mb123]

Hi All

I'm a TC newbie and have been trying to install to my old Sony VAIO laptop following the instructions on this site and also on Youtube. Everything seems to go fine until I get to the stage when I need to copy the boot file from the CD to the hard disk -:  cp -p /mnt/hdc/boot/* /mnt/hda/boot/      Using the preceding command, I keep getting an error message along the lines of - can't stat /mnt/hdc/boot/* no such file or directory.

I'd appreciate any assistance on this. Am I inputting the wrong command?

Thanks in anticipation

M

[Juanito]

Maybe cp -p /mnt/hdc/boot/* /mnt/hda1/boot/ or similar?

[mb123]

Hi Juanito

Thanks for your speedy reply. My original post should have read hda1 as opposed to merely hda.

Any other suggestions??

Regards

M

[tinypoodle]

Are you sure /mnt/hdc is mounted first?

[mb123]

Hi, yes, hdc is mounted. Could it be due to trying to install from a Linux Format coverdisc with other distros on there? Might it be better to download and burn iso file to cd?

Cheers

[curaga]

Oh, you should've mentioned that earlier. The file paths are likely to be different on a modified disc.

You could either search for them on that disc, burn a TC one, or just download them.

[Guy]

You can see where the files are using the file manager.

You can also copy the files using the file manager. You may need to run it as root.

[tinypoodle]

I could imagine that the CD of a magazine might have an .iso image of TC.
If so, you would have to mount that image to get at the files.

[wysiwyg]

Everything seems to go fine until I get to the stage when I need to copy the boot file from the CD to the hard disk -:  cp -p /mnt/hdc/boot/* /mnt/hda/boot/      Using the preceding command, I keep getting an error message along the lines of - can't stat /mnt/hdc/boot/* no such file or directory.

What are the contents of the /mnt/hdc/boot directory (e.g. ls -al)?  There should just be a bzImage and tinycore.gz file (and possibly a directory) - at least by what my install media is showing.  Have you tried deleting any files from the destination directory that are also in the source directory before copying?  Also, perhaps try "sudo cp -p ..."

Dave

[maro]

@mb123: So you have a CD-ROM which amongst other things contains TC. If I would be in your situation I'd try to "follow the trail": With that I mean to take a look into the boot loader configuration on the CD-ROM (depending on which boot loader is used this might be a file like 'isolinux.cfg', if ISOLINUX is used), and identify how that CD-ROM loads TinyCore.

I could imagine two different approaches: (1) use of discrete files for the kernel (original name: 'bzImage') and the initrd (original name: 'tinycore.gz'), or (2) use of an image file (which would itself contain the kernel and the initrd). I personally have so far only used (1) in such a scenario, but that not need to mean much.

In the end you just need the two aforementioned files. So you could also either download them from here or the (complete) TC ISO from here.

[mb123]

Hi All

Thanks for your help. I've downloaded the complete Tinycore ISO file and burned to CD and have managed to install from that. My old Sony is now working again!

Cheers

M