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Offline Rita G.

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can't id drive
« on: March 13, 2011, 04:27:37 PM »
stuck at this install step....

Mount the original boot media. For this guide, TC was booted from an IDE cd-rom drive on the second channel:
mount /mnt/hdc


i am installing from an external USB cd/dvd drive and have no idea what to enter here.

Offline thane

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Re: can't id drive
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2011, 04:40:43 PM »
Mount Tool on the menu bar (it's also available through the control panel) should show you what devices you have.

FWIW, on my box the (built-in) CD drive is sr0 [that's zero, not oh].

Offline Rita G.

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Re: can't id drive
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 04:59:34 PM »
thanks thane

Offline Rita G.

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Re: can't id drive
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2011, 05:50:09 PM »
got all the way down to:

Run GRUB:

grub

and all i get is:

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640k lower / 3072k upper memory)
       [minimal bash-like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah]

grub>

..and that's all...
       

Offline Guy

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Re: can't id drive
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 06:26:23 PM »
What happens when you type:

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

You may need to change "root (hd0,0)" to whatever partition you have Tiny Core on.

What partition is it?

Don't change "setup (hd0)"
« Last Edit: March 13, 2011, 06:35:43 PM by Guy »
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Offline roberts

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Re: can't id drive
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2011, 06:36:59 PM »
You can use grub's built in 'find' to determine the drive and partition.


grub> find /boot/tinycore.gz
 (hd0,0)
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