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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: h2sammo on January 22, 2019, 09:04:19 PM

Title: upgrading coreplus
Post by: h2sammo on January 22, 2019, 09:04:19 PM
is there an official upgrade procedure? i tried reading around but it seems many people do it differently - with different results. how do i upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0?
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: Juanito on January 23, 2019, 12:39:24 AM
There are many ways to upgrade.

If you have a new usb stick or empty hd partition, probably the best way is to use the tc-install{,-gui} extension.

If you have an existing tinycore usb stick, you can install alongside an existing installation by renaming the distribution files and tce folder and creating a new bootloader menu item to match.
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: h2sammo on January 23, 2019, 01:20:23 AM
i have an existing USB stick. i added a "boot10.0" folder which i copied from the coreplus 10 iso and pointed to it in grub.cfg. machine boots, but the apps program syncs to my tce folder which still seems to be based on coreplus 9 extensions. If i try to update the extensions from the Apps program it still says: "you seem to be running coreplus 9.0" and there are a bunch of errors on the screen.

do i have to do anything to the tce folder which saves all my data (and was created on an old core) if i boot from an updated core?
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: Juanito on January 23, 2019, 01:58:58 AM
You can use the boot code tce= to point to a new tce folder, which will be created on reboot
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: h2sammo on January 23, 2019, 02:16:44 AM
oh... so i should NOT use the same tce folder for 2 different cores?
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: Juanito on January 23, 2019, 02:54:31 AM
You could use the same tce folder for Core-9.x and Core64-9.x, but not for CorePure64-9.x.

For Core-9.x and Core-10.x you would need a different tce folder if you are going to continue to use both of them.
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: h2sammo on January 23, 2019, 03:24:33 AM
is something like this valid?

tce=LABEL=Tinycore/tce10.0 or tce=LABEL=Tinycore/tce9.0

Tinycore is label for /mnt/sdb3 for example. i have tce10.0 and tce9.0 folders for 2 different tce on that partition
Title: Re: upgrading coreplus
Post by: Juanito on January 23, 2019, 04:48:03 AM
that should work..