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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: jimlikessweets on April 13, 2009, 06:40:43 PM

Title: simple installation problem
Post by: jimlikessweets on April 13, 2009, 06:40:43 PM

hi am  i trying to install tinycore with your installation instructions.
my problem: i get to the part where it asks me to mount /mnt/hdc in "5. Copy over TC system files" of your instructions and it tells me that it doesn't exist. i'm assuming it's probably just labeled differently on my system. i don't know how to find out what the proper label is for my cdrom. how do i find it?

thanks in advanced
-jim

Title: Re: simple installation problem
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on April 13, 2009, 07:19:50 PM

You could:
- look in /mnt for it, or mnttool
- grep name /proc/sys/dev/cdrom
- dmesg | grep -i cd

Title: Re: simple installation problem
Post by: jimlikessweets on April 14, 2009, 02:19:41 AM

okay i got it mounted, thanks a lot  :)
now i have run into another problem, this time with grub.
i'm on "6. Installing GRUB" and am on the step where the example is "root (hd0,0)"
the drive i am installing to is sda2 so i typed in "root (sd0,1)" and i get an error message "error 23: error while parsing number"

what am i doing wrong now? :-\

Title: Re: simple installation problem
Post by: Lee on April 14, 2009, 02:40:17 AM

Quote

the drive i am installing to is sda2 so i typed in "root (sd0,1)" and i get an error message "error 23: error while parsing number"

Try root (hd0,1)

I don't think the parenthesized notation takes cares about sdX vs hdX.

Title: Re: simple installation problem
Post by: Juanito on April 14, 2009, 02:57:45 AM

I'm not totally sure if you're trying to boot from a scsi hd or a usb stick - if the latter, you might want to read the usb instructions here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/grub-0.97-splash.tce.info (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/grub-0.97-splash.tce.info)

Also, if you set-up grub whilst booting for another usb stick, the usb stick might have been /dev/sdb1 whilst setting it up, but it will be /dev/sda1 when you boot from it.

Title: Re: simple installation problem
Post by: curaga on April 14, 2009, 11:45:34 AM

Because grub uses the boot device as the default root device, it does not matter if the device has changed (just leave out all "root" statements from menu.lst).

For TC options you can avoid the device-changing-problems by using it via label or uuid (requires TC 1.3)