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Offline LAPIII

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Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM »
My HDD crashed and am now running Ubuntu LiveCD, but there's only 1 CD drive .  I want install TC onto an SD card, but I don't know how to go about it. 

1) I think that Installing TC on USB would help, but which steps to follow?

2) On the Current Release page, which files do I need to download?

3) If all, then is there a single easy way to download them all?
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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 05:36:15 PM »
Quote from: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM
My HDD crashed and am now running Ubuntu LiveCD, but there's only 1 CD drive .

TC CD can be removed after boot.
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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2010, 06:15:39 PM »
If you've already got a bootable USB drive (i.e. have a boot loader installed on it) you just need to download the kernel (i.e. bzImage) and the initrd (i.e. tinycore.gz) and create an additional entry in the boot loader configuration file.

This assumes that you know (at least a bit) of what you are doing. It's certainly not rocket science, but if you've never done something like this before the Wiki page mentions a few options that should help you in this endeavour.
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Offline LAPIII

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2010, 10:31:11 AM »
Quote from: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM

1) I think that Installing TC on USB would help, but which steps to follow?

Quote from: maro on December 16, 2010, 06:15:39 PM

If you've already got a bootable USB drive (i.e. have a boot loader installed on it)...

I dont have a USB flash drive, just a SD card.
« Last Edit: December 18, 2010, 10:33:36 AM by LAPIII »
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Offline kanan

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 04:43:31 PM »
Most bios's can't boot from an SD card.  If it's not in the boot menu of your bios, you'll never get TC/Grub to start from there.
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Offline floppy

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2010, 05:02:46 PM »
ok, but perhaps an sd card into an usb adapter?
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Offline kanan

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2010, 05:12:58 PM »
Yeah.  Or Grub on the USB and TC on the SD.
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Offline beerstein

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2010, 10:44:22 AM »
Hi:
I found out that you can use an SD card adapter which is plugged into the IDE
socket on the motherboard. These tiny gadgets cost about $ 12.00 to 19.00
and are available on ebay. I recommend buying from a vendor in US such as onbene or so.
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Offline roberts

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2010, 11:09:08 AM »
The sdcard to ide adapter works fine.
I use the usbinstall script HDD option to install Tiny Core.
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Offline beerstein

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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2010, 10:06:59 AM »
there are also sata adapters available to connect a SD card.

Question: Where is that HD script to install?
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Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2010, 10:24:39 AM »
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