Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => Micro Core => Topic started by: bigpcman on January 24, 2010, 04:12:28 PM

Title: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: bigpcman on January 24, 2010, 04:12:28 PM

Robert and team tc - great work on version 2.8. This was a tough release.

I know I must be doing something stupid but I can't get the desktop running.

Here's some base info:

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showbootcodes
initrd=/boot/microcore.gz quiet max_loop=255 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage waitusb=10 vga=790 tce=sda1

/mnt/sda1/tce
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff     3003728 Jan 24 14:17 Xlibs.core.tcz
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff      660805 Jan 24 14:17 Xprogs.core.tcz
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff      322694 Jan 24 14:17 Xvesa.core.tcz
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff          19 Jan 24 14:28 onboot.lst
drwxrwxr-x    2 tc       staff        1024 Jan 24 14:28 optional/

/mnt/sda1/tce/optional
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff       32768 Jan 24 14:17 flwm.tcz
-rwxrwxr-x    1 tc       staff          43 Jan 24 14:17 flwm.tcz.md5.txt

onboot.lst
flwm.tcz
After booting from the mc 2.8 cd iso I run "sudo tce-setup" followed by "startx".

I get an error response - command not found: startx (tried sudo startx as well)

What am doing wrong?

Title: Re: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: vitex on January 24, 2010, 04:27:16 PM

The core elements for 2.8 are *.core.gz, not *.core.tcz.  Get them from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/ (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/)

and place them in your tce directory.

Also, execute

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echo Xvesa >/etc/sysconfig/Xserver to tell startx which X server you are using.  (This step should be built into the extension but is not.)

Title: Re: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: bigpcman on January 24, 2010, 06:15:48 PM

Quote from: vitex on January 24, 2010, 04:27:16 PM

The core elements for 2.8 are *.core.gz, not *.core.tcz.  Get them from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/ (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/)

and place them in your tce directory.

Also, execute

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echo Xvesa >/etc/sysconfig/Xserver to tell startx which X server you are using.  (This step should be built into the extension but is not.)

Thanks, I knew it must be something simple. As it turns out I was reusing a little script to install the core extensions and I forgot to change the extension names on the destination files. Here's the corrected version if anyone is interested.

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#!/bin/sh
wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/Xlibs.core.gz -O /mnt/sda1/tce/Xlibs.core.gz
wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/Xprogs.core.gz -O /mnt/sda1/tce/Xprogs.core.gz
wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/Xvesa.core.gz -O /mnt/sda1/tce/Xvesa.core.gz
tce-load -w -i flwm_topside
tce-load -w -i wbar

edit: updated script

Title: Re: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: roberts on January 26, 2010, 02:40:45 PM

Quote from: vitex on January 24, 2010, 04:27:16 PM

The core elements for 2.8 are *.core.gz, not *.core.tcz.  Get them from

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/ (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/microcore/)

and place them in your tce directory.

Also, execute

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echo Xvesa >/etc/sysconfig/Xserver to tell startx which X server you are using.  (This step should be built into the extension but is not.)

These are not extensions but initramfs, so no startup scripts.
However /etc/sysconfig/Xserver was missing from Xvesa.core.gz and has now been updated!

Title: Re: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: baz on February 26, 2010, 05:48:44 PM

To be sure, in 2.8.1 you place those in tce/optional not tce right?

Title: Re: microcore 2.8 - can't seem to get a desktop running
Post by: baz on February 26, 2010, 05:53:53 PM

Ok scratch that, even in 2.8.1 they go in tce not tce/optional