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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: leifanator on October 12, 2010, 07:08:31 PM

Title: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: leifanator on October 12, 2010, 07:08:31 PM

I have tiny core running on an i686 virtualbox sim.  The virtual hard drive is 8 GB which expands when full.  I have installed the required cfdisk, and grub.

There are 2 partitions which I have written to the virtual hard drive:

hda1     boot     primary    linux                           7998.98 MB
hda2                 primary    linux swap / solaris      590.93 MB

I have tried the following commands:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1

mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

mkfs.ext4 /dev/hda1


I did everything the installation tutorial told me to do.  Help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: gerald_clark on October 12, 2010, 07:19:18 PM

OK, so what is the problem?

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: leifanator on October 12, 2010, 07:22:02 PM

 when I type in mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1, it says there is no such device.

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: leifanator on October 12, 2010, 07:25:06 PM

never mind, I restarted it then it worked.

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: leifanator on October 12, 2010, 07:28:13 PM

Crap, now I have another problem.  When I do rebuildfstab, it say permission denied.  Is this normal, because I didn't see a root terminal option.

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: gerald_clark on October 12, 2010, 07:30:27 PM

use sudo.
sudo rebuildfstab

Title: Re: Having problems installing tiny core --
Post by: maro on October 12, 2010, 07:32:58 PM

and likewise: sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1