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The Linux live CD or USB stick is not hot news. But, having the full installation running from a USB flash drive that acts like a hard drive is the difference. If you already have Windows installed on a computer, and want to install Tinycore, while keeping Windows, you may use one of the following methods.
Mar 08, 2018 Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is designed to be an extremely small and nomadic distribution. My full installation with a large repository occupies about 1.2GB on a flash drive and I can flexibly use that USB as a home/office workstation (using Libre office, any of a few Internet browsers, mail clients, GIMP, etc.), a PC repair kit with. In this tutorial, I will describe how to install Tiny Core Linux on a USB drive. First, you need to mount an empty USB drive to a local mount point. Most Linux distributions will do this automatically when you insert the USB drive. After installation of Tiny Core Linux is completed, you will see the following screen. Windows Azure; Xen.
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I have download Tiny Core Linux from the official site. I searched on the official site, but could not find a solution for my actual problem.
How can I make a bootable USB stick and how can I install this Linux distribution?
My Laptop configurations are RAM: 2 GB, HDD: 256 GB, DVD-RW, USB-slot available.
- Vishal,did Jeffery's reply solve your question? Please let us know whether you were able to install Tiny Core. Thank you!
- I use UNetBootin to burn my ISO images, it supports burning to a USB.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/Once you burn the image to your USB, you'll need to configure your BIOS so that it boots to the USB and not your HDD. To do so, press the 'delete' button AS SOON AS THE SYSTEM STARTS. If that doesn't work, restart and look for the small text indicating which key launches you into the BIOS setup.
More information on changing the boot order:
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdromOnce you are in there change the first one to 'USB' or 'USB/FLASH'. Make sure the second is 'HDD'. Save and reboot and you should be able to install from the USB. Once it is installed, change the boot order back to the way it was before and profit!
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I have installed tinycore in VirtualBox. However, I am not satisfied with the boot time. From what I have investigated so far, this is due to the frugal install. All packages are compressed and reside in one folder and are unpacked and installed everytime during boot. Depending on how many packages you want to be available on boot this may take some time. I would prefer it, if the packages would be persistent and that the root filesystem would not have to be repopulated after every boot.
Is there a way to make a 'real', non-frugal install of tinycore?
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Short answer: 'no'. Tiny Core is explicitly designed not to be installed the way you are contemplating.
However, there are some considerations you should take into account:
- Tiny Core does not 'unpack' packages ('extensions' in Tiny Core parlance). Instead, each extension is a mountable, compressed, read-only filesystem which is simply mounted, and the individual files within it are symlinked into their appropriate positions (usually under
/usr
) rather than being copied there. - The process in step one has several advantages
- the files take up very little actual memory space under
/usr
- the files are reasonably safe/secure as they are read-only
- creating symbolic links is much faster than copying the files
- the files take up very little actual memory space under
- Given the above, particularly item 2.3, there may be some other factor slowing down your VM's boot – anything from the physical hardware to the underlying OS on which VirtualBox is running.
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If you want to continue down the path of a 'real' install (what the Tiny Core designer refers to as 'Scatter Mode' because files are scattered all over the disk), you might want to try one of the following:
- remaster the initrd to contain your extensions, preloaded. This will still not get you the disk based system you wanted as the entire filesystem will be in RAM – possibly a lot of RAM.
- Load the extensions with the copy-to-fs option (which will eat up a lot of RAM) and then somehow image the running file system – but you still need to figure out how to get it running on disk.
- (Probably the cleanest option) Use a different distro, as you would really be losing the most important benefits of Tiny Core anyway.
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