Hi all,
I'm new around here and I've been playing with tiny core for a couple of days now. At the moment I have a working system on a USB stick with just a browser, ntfs support, and wireless network with wpa. I am impressed with TC and I already have a couple of projects in mind where TC would fit nicely. I have already tested this setup on four different systems at home and it seems to be working great, but I have a small issue with a fifth, much older system. This is more an annoyance than an issue but I would still like to try and troubleshoot it if possible.
In this particular system, after loading tinycore.gz, I see the msg ".....ready" and it stops there for more than a minute. After this pause everything seems to be working normally and the process continues. The first message I see after this pause is "tcp reno registered".
Is there any possible way to see what happens during this pause and find what could be causing it?
This is an old celeron 333 notebook with 128mb of ram, no bios support for booting from usb devices (except for an external usb floppy drive), and a single usb port available. I am not sure if this is of any relevance, but for the test I just boot the system with a floppy containing plop, I swap the floppy drive with my TC usb stick, and I boot TC from there. I also use pcmcia cards for both wired and wireless connectivity as the notebook does not have any onboard means for connecting to the network.