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jur:
--- Quote from: roberts on May 27, 2011, 09:26:31 AM ---Boot options home=hda1 opt=hda1 work as expected. Of course the level 1 directory of your Widows Xp now has /home/tc and /opt directories populated. So then Tiny Core now occupies three directories on XP.
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Well it most certainly didn't work on my first "successful" trial. When I rebooted, there was a boot message about these locations not being supported.
Aside from your rant about instructions, there were a number of other observations I made as well. Those instructions, seeing how simple you stated them should be abundantly visible during the process, not be obscurely hidden in a rc post - how many bytes could it be?
jur:
I have IMHO an important suggestion:
Instead of applying bootlace to drive C and modifying the boot sector, which is a risky move, consider the less risky option of simply editing boot.ini and appending the additional boot option to it and passing the boot process to brub when the user selects this.
This way, the disc is left intact for the user and removing TC (perish the thought) will leave the user with their original Windows boot intact.
Users wishing to try out TC would feel a lot more at ease if they had the assurance that their Windows installation won't be touched, and that they could simply delete TC if they so wished. But modding the boot sector creates anxiety, as well as potential for disaster when the user suddenly panics and hits ctrl-alt-del, or if the power fails on their desktop in the middle of the process.
curaga:
home and opt on ntfs? permission problems ahoy :P
jur:
--- Quote from: curaga on May 28, 2011, 01:44:02 AM ---home and opt on ntfs? permission problems ahoy :P
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Exactly.
newbody:
I like what Jur writes here and if the newbie already have dual booting then the install mess up that one too does it not? And if one have it already installed as I had then the easier way is to have the ntfs-3g.gz to be delivered in the right place without first having to do the Panel > Start package thing and then look for it in places a newbie have no experience of. bzImage and tinycore.gz are already in the iso in the directory boot so it is easy to put ntfs-3g.gz there too with a read me txt file that gives the menu.lst for those that already have a dual boot install and them easily add that by copy and paste and only change the hda1 to sda3 whatever them see apply on their computer.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9762.msg53349#msg53349
--- Quote from: curaga on May 28, 2011, 01:44:02 AM ---home and opt on ntfs? permission problems ahoy :P
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curaga and jur how can I test this if it happen on my install too? Any easy to check example?
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