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Corepure64 / resizing sf2 went normal , then gparted linux from left to right -- 'boot error"

« Last post by cudain on November 28, 2025, 12:33:02 PM »

hello everyone.. its been almost a week .. i am working around with tinycore , its interesting.. my first linux officially i could say..
so now --
 i have installed tinycore linux in this disk even when i had 2 other empty partitions 10gb sized . the tc install from its frugal installation selected the whole drive (because selected partition gives usb mount error) installed tiny core linux i it.   

now i want to resize this system files .. the tinycore linux os from 10-15 gb . leaving everything else unallocated to be allocated to any disk format i want if all its possible.

then reading some ai and forums and a help from a person -- resize2fs was done -- it was successful , booted all well.. the linux system was at left side when i saw it in gparted or diskgenius
 then no replies .. i lost my patience.. i moved the linux section ( i dont see it as some separate partition may be it was.. it dint seem like tho) to far right from left -- then clicked clear to unallocated space .
unallocated space was available ..could be seen in windows .. but due to moving obviously -- the linux came out "boot error " and nothing else it shows..
so start and end is changed a lot.. some said its data corruption.. google ai said to make it visible with some codes.. i could not do much far in that  ..

so is there a tinycore boot error fixer ? thanks for reading ..

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Corepure64 / Re: Getting kernel files ready for nvidia proprietary drivers installer

« Last post by cudain on November 28, 2025, 12:23:46 PM »

thanks .. so how shall i correct it now ?

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General TC Talk / Re: Trying to have xscreensaver - for a digital picture frame

« Last post by gadget42 on November 28, 2025, 11:06:41 AM »

xscreensaver background via Jamie Zawinski

https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/sleep-mode/jamie-zawinski

also see(more generally):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

https://www.jwz.org/

edited to add jwz.org

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CorePlus / Re: which build support 80486 cpu?

« Last post by Juanito on November 28, 2025, 08:10:35 AM »

Tinycore x86 should support i486

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CorePlus / which build support 80486 cpu?

« Last post by youxiaojie on November 28, 2025, 04:20:45 AM »

which build support 80486 cpu? is the latest support 486? an text console is adequate.
 and if not support 486, is 586 cpu support? the original pentitum, via c3, amd 5x86/k5/k6 ibm/cyrix 5x86,6x86

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Tiny Core Netbooks / TinyCore in a 2007 Macbook Intel_x86?

« Last post by Santos on November 28, 2025, 01:55:56 AM »

Hi

system_profiler
uname

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Hardware:

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: MacBook
      Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
      Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed: 2 GHz
      Number Of Processors: 1
      Total Number Of Cores: 2
      L2 Cache: 4 MB
      Memory: 1 GB
      Bus Speed: 667 MHz
      Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
      SMC Version (system): 1.17f0
      Serial Number (system): W8738GPDZ5V
      Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B6335695E
      Sudden Motion Sensor:
          State: Enabled



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Darwin 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386




I have an old 2007 Macbook. I tried to boot from a usb. Turning on the laptop while holding down 'alt' to get the boot menu. The usb prepared with Rufus/dd/cat when plugged in, makes the laptop stay in a white screen. If I hold down 'alt' without a usb attached then the boot menu appears and gives only the hdd to boot from.

Issuing sudo in the terminal makes it to ask for a password I don't have. So my only guess (first time ever working with Linux on a Mac; regular user of TC) is that the laptop is 'account-locked' and that makes it impossible to boot from usb drives/cd/dvd (optical disc tried as well). The account the laptop boots into is a guest account.

Any ideas on how to make this laptop run Tiny Core? or is it just paper weight at this point?

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Other architectures / Re: VSRVES01-board

« Last post by Yleisajattelija on November 28, 2025, 01:37:28 AM »

I did visit yesterday VLSI-Solution, and (if I did understand correctly) they will provide long time support for free code.

I will start coding...

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General TC Talk / Re: Trying to have xscreensaver - for a digital picture frame

« Last post by Rich on November 27, 2025, 09:55:06 PM »

Hi Richard Cranium

... also , back to my last question about configuring xscreensaver to auto start..., looking at the install notes in the package manager description is what has me a little confused ...

Do you mean this note:

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                To start at boot, put the following to
                ~/.X.d/xscreensaver:
                   xscreensaver -nosplash &When running a GUI, your home directory contains a hidden directory
called  .X.d. The note is telling you to create a file called  xscreensaver
that contains the command:

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xscreensaver -nosplash &The file name is merely descriptive so you know what it is. You can call
it anything you want. After  .xsession  has started the GUI, it opens any
files it finds in  .X.d  and executes their contents line by line.

Having said all of that, I don't think  xscreensaver  does what you think
it does. From the  xscreensaver  man page:

HOW IT WORKS
When it is time to activate the screensaver, a full-screen black window is created on each screen of the display. Each window is
created in such a way that, to any subsequently-created programs, it will appear to be a "virtual root" window. Because of this, any
program which draws on the root window (and which understands virtual roots) can be used as a screensaver. The various graphics
demos are, in fact, just standalone programs that know how to draw on the provided window.

Found here:
https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/xscreensaver.1.html

So  xscreensaver  is not copying images to the screen. It's launching programs
that know how to draw to the screen, and those programs probably draw animations.

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General TC Talk / Re: Trying to have xscreensaver - for a digital picture frame

« Last post by Richard Cranium on November 27, 2025, 05:54:18 PM »

Hi Richard Cranium

but it all can still work even with a gui (desktop)??

Sure, if you want to make your life more difficult.

You'll need to install  Xvesa  or  Xfbdev  or  Xorg.

You'll need to use  feh  instead of  fbv.
feh depends on ca-certificates, curl, and openssl. That might cause
problems since that laptop has no network access, I don't know.
(I just checked, it runs without network access.)

You'll need a persistent  /home  where you'll keep the pictures to be displayed, for example:

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/home/tc/MyPictures/
You'll need to create a file in  /home/tc/.X.d/  containing:

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feh -r -D 5 -F -Z /home/tc/MyPictures/* &You can use any name you want for that file, for example StartFeh.
That command will automatically get executed once the GUI is
up and running. If you hit  q  on the keyboard, it will stop.
If you do it like this, it will restart if someone tries to stop the slideshow:

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while true; do feh -r -D 5 -F -Z /home/tc/MyPictures/*; done &

Nah , It's not that I think I'm making or trying to make it more difficult , it's actually the opposite , it's a "just in case" kinda thing , for example - I'm most likely going to just remove the storage device (in this case i've installed an sd card ide adapter) whenever I wish to add more pictures , but what if I don't want to remove it? , well then the other option is usb thumb drive (just like any other digital picture frame) and load them that way... 

so that's my reason for asking the questions...

also , back to my last question about configuring xscreensaver to auto start..., looking at the install notes in the package manager description is what has me a little confused ...

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General TC Talk / Re: Trying to have xscreensaver - for a digital picture frame

« Last post by gadget42 on November 27, 2025, 07:58:59 AM »

after visiting:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/feh

wanted to quote a snippet:

--index-info format
Show image information based on format below thumbnails in index / thumbnail mode. See FORMAT SPECIFIERS. May contain newlines.

Note: If you specify image-related formats (such as %w or %s), feh needs to load all images to calculate the dimensions of its own window. So when using them with many files, it will take a while before a feh window becomes visible. Use --preload to get a progress bar.

mostly just to specifically note:
*So when using them with many files, it will take a while before a feh window becomes visible. Use --preload to get a progress bar.*