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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: beerstein on July 10, 2009, 04:45:18 AM

Title: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: beerstein on July 10, 2009, 04:45:18 AM
Hi there:
I still like DSL and now I played around with TC 2.1. It is just great. But -

After I installed my favourite applications (Firefox, AB-Word, mc and so on) everything worked fine.
I did the backup, but after rebooting I could not see the Firefox icon any more. I was able to start the mc (midnight commander). I was not able to start all the other applications.

Can somebody help me?

Thank you
Winfried

BTW: Is ist possible to burn a new bootable CD (remaster) or generate an ISO file for a bootable CD/?
Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: Guy on July 10, 2009, 10:05:10 AM
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win98SE partition

I assume you are talking about a FAT 32 partition. Tiny Core can be installed on a FAT 32 partition, and can work. You may have less problems on a Linux filesystem, such as an Ext3.


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After I installed my favourite applications (Firefox, AB-Word, mc and so on) everything worked fine.
I did the backup, but after rebooting I could not see the Firefox icon any more. I was able to start the mc (midnight commander). I was not able to start all the other applications.

It is not really clear exactly what you did. Can you be more specific?


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Is ist possible to burn a new bootable CD (remaster) or generate an ISO file for a bootable CD?

Yes

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Integrating_extensions (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Integrating_extensions)

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Remastering (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Remastering)

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Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: jpeters on July 10, 2009, 07:27:45 PM
I'm guessing you didn't mount the fat32 partition. It should work fine with linux.  I love upgrading Win98 (ie, to linux   :)  ), since that's the default format so you can use all the windows files.  
Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: beerstein on July 11, 2009, 11:35:01 AM
Thank you all so much for the comments and suggestions.
yes, I would like to have the following:

Tiny Core on a USB stick and/or on a bootable CD
have only the applications installed,  I really  n
eedwould like to write and read ext3 and FAT 32 on the stick or on a mounted hard drive

I found an article on the web on how to remaster. I tried it but had limited success
I am trying again right now on a PC with more memory .The more i use (play) around with TC the more I love that thing. It is just excellent.

I am planning also to make a USB stick with FAT 32, EXT3, swap partitions and install it on that stick with only a few extensions to use it on the road. If you have info or links for that how to do it please let me know.

BTW: Where can I find instructions on how to install it on a hard drive partition?

you all have a good weekend
thank you
winfred



Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: Guy on July 11, 2009, 12:14:58 PM
Install on a hard drive while connected to the internet

http://www.tinycorelinux.com/install.html (http://www.tinycorelinux.com/install.html)

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Install on a hard drive without being connected to the internet

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Install on a USB drive

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Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on July 11, 2009, 02:25:20 PM
Recent releases have `usbinstall` that you could use
Title: Re: How to save my applications on a win98SE partition?
Post by: beerstein on July 13, 2009, 07:59:27 AM
Hi - thank you so much
I worked in Live mode and specified the third mode of operation, where I slected
{hda1| sda1} option at boot time.
I down loaded several extensions ( download only) - did not install them
I saw the extensions in the "optional" folder.
I tried to remaster and everything worked fine exept, in the final stage, when the
system tries to write the remastered iso I got a an error message. Not enough
memory. It wrote only about 10% or so ---
 I have 256 MB RAM

Do I need more RAM?

Or is there a way to use a partition or a file?

Thank you all
Winfred