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General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: Mike7 on December 14, 2013, 04:55:30 PM

Title: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Mike7 on December 14, 2013, 04:55:30 PM
Hi, Béla or anyone else who cares to reply.

A few questions about core2usb and TCL version compatibility:

1) At Sourceforge. net there is a new version of the Windows USB installer: core2usb-16-src. Will this work with the CorePlus-5.1.iso?
2) Will it work with earlier TCL versions?
3) Will core2usb-1.6.exe work with CorePlus-5.1.iso?

Lastly, whatever happened to the TLC multicore iso, which was supposed to be the only one that would work with Unetbootin?

Thanks!

Mike
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: bmarkus on December 14, 2013, 05:22:07 PM
Mike

it is expected to work with TC 4.x/5.x If you find any bug or get issues, just report, will check

Regards... Bela
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: curaga on December 15, 2013, 03:14:52 AM
Multicore was renamed CorePlus, but unetbootin was never supported. Please don't use third-party installers.
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Mike7 on December 15, 2013, 07:15:30 PM
Hi, Béla.

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it is expected to work with TC 4.x/5.x If you find any bug or get issues, just report, will check

Do you recommend using core2usb-16-src and CorePlus-5.1, rather than core2usb-1.6.exe and CorePlus-4.7.4?

The reason I ask is that I already downloaded core2usb-1.6.exe and CorePlus-4.7.4 a while ago. Last March, to be exact. Due to medical issues I never got around to using them for an installation.

BTW, what does SRC stand for? Also, why is newer core2usb a .zip rather than an .exe?
[Sorry, but I'm a curious sort of guy.]

Thanks again, Béla.

Cheers!

Mike
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 15, 2013, 07:31:40 PM
Source code versus compiled binaries of same versions.
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: bmarkus on December 15, 2013, 07:37:02 PM
Source code versus compiled binaries of same versions.

Exactly. Source package was uploaded later. Use the latest executable.
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Mike7 on December 15, 2013, 07:47:11 PM
Hi, Curaga.

You wrote:
> Multicore was renamed CorePlus, but unetbootin was never supported. Please don't
> use third-party installers.

Oops! Sorry. I got Unetbootin mixed up with the dd install we were discussing last March. I've been having health issues and have kinda lost track.

In a 2011 post, Roberts wrote:
> With isohybrid one has a trivial pendrive installation.
> No installation program needed.
> dd if=multicore-current.iso of=/dev/sdX
> Just be absolutely sure that you have specified the correct target for the output file
> Note: only the multicore.iso has this feature.
> However it is simple to isohybrid the other isos, e.g.
> isohybrid tinycore-current.iso

However, I never succeeded in getting either dd.exe or isohybrid.exe to work with any Linux/pendrive install from Windows.

But since I am currently running PuppeeeLinux 4.4, which has the dd command, and the newer versions of CorePlus are supposedly isohybrids, could I just download CorePlus and dd it to a pendrive? Would that make a good bootable USB install?

Thanks muchly.

Mike


Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Rich on December 15, 2013, 08:02:07 PM
Hi Mike7
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However, I never succeeded in getting either dd.exe or isohybrid.exe to work with any Linux/pendrive install from Windows.
The reason bmarkus wrote  core2usb  was to make it easy for people to install from windows, just download
and run, no installation necessary.
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Mike7 on December 15, 2013, 08:05:41 PM
> Source code versus compiled binaries of same versions

> Exactly. Source package was uploaded later. Use the latest executable.

Sorry to ask you spell it out, Béla, but you mean I should use 1.6.exe and not mess around with the 16-src.zip, right? (I'm a little confused, here.)

P.S. I was a ham radio operator, too, in my youth. Call sign K2SAH. My father was one of the first hams, as a member of the Brooklyn (New York) Amateur Radio Club in the 1920-30s.

Cheers!

Mike



Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Rich on December 15, 2013, 08:12:28 PM
Hi Mike7
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... I should use 1.6.exe and not mess around with the 16-src.zip, right? (I'm a little confused, here.)
Yes, use the 1.6.exe. The source package is only used if you want to compile the program yourself.
Title: Re: New core2usb and TCL versions compatible?
Post by: Mike7 on December 15, 2013, 08:52:42 PM
Thanks, Rich.