Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: funguy on February 16, 2012, 01:33:31 PM

Title: PXE boot issues
Post by: funguy on February 16, 2012, 01:33:31 PM

I successfully gzip the cde folder as cde.gz but the boot process over pxe still looking elsewhere. 
Here is what I have so far:

1) extracted the vmlinuz and core.gz and placed in my c:\tftpboot\tinycore\boot\
2) edited my c:\tftpboot\pxelinux.cfg\default with:
  LABEL Tiny Core
  KERNEL     tinycore\boot\vmlinuz
  APPEND     initrd=tinycore\boot\core.gz,initrd=tinycore\boot\cde.gz quiet cde

Result: Merges the core and cde into one filesystem, but drops to a prompt.  Looks like it wants the cd or tftplist for cde folder.  Is there a better merge point for my cde folder to work with the existing startx process like /tmp/cde or something.

Title: Re: PXE boot issues
Post by: Rich on February 16, 2012, 02:06:08 PM

Hi funguy
If you are looking for a GUI, you want Tinycore.

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TinyCore is simply the kernel + core.gz + Xvesa.tcz|Xorg.tcz + Xprogs + (user's choice of Window Manager) + (optionally wbar.tcz).

That is from the release notes found here:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12164.0.html (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12164.0.html)

Title: Re: PXE boot issues
Post by: funguy on February 20, 2012, 02:11:32 PM

I solved it and posted the tutorial http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12613.0.html (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12613.0.html)