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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM

Title: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM

My HDD crashed and am now running Ubuntu LiveCD, but there's only 1 CD drive .  I want install TC onto an SD card, but I don't know how to go about it. 

1) I think that Installing TC on USB (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/Installing+TC+on+USB&structure=Installing+TC) would help, but which steps to follow?

2) On the Current Release  (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/)page, which files do I need to download?

3) If all, then is there a single easy way to download them all?

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: tinypoodle on December 16, 2010, 05:36:15 PM

Quote from: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM

My HDD crashed and am now running Ubuntu LiveCD, but there's only 1 CD drive .

TC CD can be removed after boot.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: maro on December 16, 2010, 06:15:39 PM

If you've already got a bootable USB drive (i.e. have a boot loader installed on it) you just need to download the kernel (i.e. bzImage (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/distribution_files/bzImage)) and the initrd (i.e. tinycore.gz (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/distribution_files/tinycore.gz)) and create an additional entry in the boot loader configuration file.

This assumes that you know (at least a bit) of what you are doing. It's certainly not rocket science, but if you've never done something like this before the Wiki page mentions a few options that should help you in this endeavour.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: LAPIII on December 18, 2010, 10:31:11 AM

Quote from: LAPIII on December 16, 2010, 04:41:11 PM

1) I think that Installing TC on USB (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/Installing+TC+on+USB&structure=Installing+TC) would help, but which steps to follow?

Quote from: maro on December 16, 2010, 06:15:39 PM

If you've already got a bootable USB drive (i.e. have a boot loader installed on it)...

I dont have a USB flash drive, just a SD card.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: kanan on December 28, 2010, 04:43:31 PM

Most bios's can't boot from an SD card.  If it's not in the boot menu of your bios, you'll never get TC/Grub to start from there.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: floppy on December 28, 2010, 05:02:46 PM

ok, but perhaps an sd card into an usb adapter?

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: kanan on December 28, 2010, 05:12:58 PM

Yeah.  Or Grub on the USB and TC on the SD.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: beerstein on December 29, 2010, 10:44:22 AM

Hi:
I found out that you can use an SD card adapter which is plugged into the IDE
socket on the motherboard. These tiny gadgets cost about $ 12.00 to 19.00
and are available on ebay. I recommend buying from a vendor in US such as onbene or so.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: roberts on December 29, 2010, 11:09:08 AM

The sdcard to ide adapter works fine.
I use the usbinstall script HDD option to install Tiny Core.

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: beerstein on December 31, 2010, 10:06:59 AM

there are also sata adapters available to connect a SD card.

Question: Where is that HD script to install?

Title: Re: Help me with installing TC Linux onto an SD card!
Post by: roberts on December 31, 2010, 10:24:39 AM

Control Panel
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/tc_030_cp.html