2015-05-08 – (version not recorded) ∞

It reminds me a lot of Puppy Linux.

Reading through it’s philosophies, it looks like this distribution is not for me.

It will have poor documentation/support for hard drive installations.

It’s also very, very, very simple. I just don’t want to fuck around with my OS anymore.

2011-08-10 – (version not recorded) ∞

Looks fantastic.

Installation to HDD from USB ∞

Getting it on a USB stick ∞

fail: UNetbootin, multicore ISO ∞

UNetbootin with the multicore just gave me a menu with one item. Trying that one menu item just refreshed that same menu. =/

fail: grub4dos, tinycore ISO ∞

My system can boot from a USB stick.
You need p7zip
You cannot just use the root of a usb drive, you have to have a partition on it.

usb_drive=/dev/sdc
usb_partition=1
usb_mountpoint=../usb_mountpoint

usb=$usb_drive$usb_partition

\wget  distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.8.iso
\wget  distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/tinycore_3.8.iso.md5.txt
\wget  grub4dos-chenall.googlecode.com/files/grub4dos-0.4.5b-2011-08-09.7z

md5sum -c tinycore_3.8.iso.md5.txt
\7za x grub4dos-0.4.5b-2011-08-09.7z
\cd grub4dos-0.4.5b
./bootlace.com --time-out=0 $usb_drive
mkfs.ext2 $usb_drive$usb_partition
\mkdir $usb_mountpoint
\mount $usb $usb_mountpoint
\cp -f ../tinycore_3.8.iso $usb_mountpoint
\cp -f ./grldr $usb_mountpoint
menu_lst=$(cat <<'HEREDOC'
find --set-root /tinycore.iso
\nmap --mem /tinycore.iso (hd32)
\nmap --hook
\nroot (hd32)
\nchainloader (hd32)
HEREDOC)
\rm -f $usb_mountpoint/menu.lst
\echo $menu_lst > $usb_mountpoint/menu.lst
\umount $usb_mountpoint
\rmdir $usb_mountpoint

This wouldn’t work. Booting up would just end up grinding on my floppy.

fail: UNetbootin, tinycore ISO ∞

UNetbootin

All three menu options: default, tinycore, tc, hang with no output.

spiralofhope

Tiny Core