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I'm running Mint 8 Helena on a Toshiba laptop i have Virtual-box 4 installed Ive been trying to get tiny core installed on it but all the threads and posts i found through Google dead end i cant find a walk-through that works Ive been at it 2 days would someone help me

this is as close as i can get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGre8VxSlcY

even that doesn't work after reboot i get "kernel panic not syncing" error

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tiny core on hard disk; I have no idea what that is but I know that I had to install http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112~Ubuntu~maverick_i386.deb

because synaptic virtualbox-ose didn't have the stuff I needed for what I used mine for.

[COLOR=Red]DO NOT[/COLOR] install the one I posted I only mentioned this for the person that helps you, (who knows tiny core) in case it could be an issue.

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In this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGre8VxSlcY

you should see the very specific instruction, you might has been missed:

This is a video cast on how to install Tiny Core in your hard disk. This video cast is using Virtualbox to virtualize . have a hard disk with 1 GB of size.

  1. open Appbrowser
  2. search for cfdisk.tcz, then click GO button (Go means Install, OK~), then do the same on grub-0.97-splash.tcz
  3. if everything is ok, then open terminal
  4. type "sudo su"
  5. type fdisk -l for
  6. type "cfdisk /dev/hda" (hda stands for Your Own Driveletter.)
  7. make space
  8. when done, type "rebuildfstab" so you can refresh the drive list
  9. type "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1" where hda1 is your own drive letter.
  10. type "mount /mnt/hda1" where hda1.. urgh...
  11. type "mkdir -p /mnt/hda1/boot/grub"
  12. type "mount /mnt/hdc" where.. the hdc.. is.. your.. cd rom drive letter.
  13. type "cp -p /mnt/hdc/boot/* /mnt/hda1/boot/"
  14. type "mkdir -p /mnt/hda1/tce"
  15. type "touch /mnt/hda1/tce/mydata.tgz"
  16. type "cp -p /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/" to install grub
  17. type "vi /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst" to make a new grub menu list
  18. press "I" key to enter edit mode. then include

default 0 timeout 10 title tinycore kernel /boot/bzImage quiet initrd /boot/tinycore.gz

  1. type ": (space)x" to exit and save changes that has been made (this forum turned : x to smiley)
  2. type "grub"
  3. In the grub prompt, type

root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit

  1. type umount /mnt/hdc, then eject /dev/hdc
  2. reboot then completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!