Start the virtual machine that you created and follow these steps:

Choose the installation option shown in the following screen capture:

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Run the Tiny Core installer by clicking TC_Install:

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Start the Tiny Core installation and follow these panels to install it on an empty harddrive:

Leave the pre-filled path as core.gz (default path).

Select the check box Whole Disk and select sda asthe core disk.

Any user files and extensions are stored outside the base operatingsystem.

Format the new partition. It is recommended that you select the ext4 option to support theLinux permissions.

If you want to use additional boot codes, such as screen resolution or keyboard mapping, enterthem now.

Set the location of the persistent home directory home=sda1.

Set the location of the persistent opt directory opt=sda1.

Select the Core Only (Text Based Interface) option to havea virtual machine with only the CLI.

If everything is OK, click Proceed.

The time required varies depending on the size of your hard drive.

Tiny Core Linux is now installed.

Restart the machine by clicking Exit, selecting Reboot, and clickingOK.

By choosing to reboot, you ensure the data persistence. Do notuse Shutdown at this stage.

TinyCoreLinux is handy for various tasks. I use the dCore variant because it can use many of the packages from Debian.

Qemu is especially useful because it is portable (can run off a USB flash drive) and there are versions for multiple host OS's (eg. Windows, Linux). The downside is that it's a bit slow under Windows - it needs a suitable driver to use hardware virtualisation, and there doesn't seem to be one for Windows hosts - still, it is fast enough to be useful.

This document was tested with the 25-May-2016 (v7.0?) release of dCore TinyCoreLinux, running under Qemu v2.5.0 on Windows 7 (64-bit).

Download TinyCoreLinux

Create a new directory for your VM - for this document I have used C:dCore

As at time of writing, the download directory for dCore Jessie is http://tinycorelinux.net/dCore/x86/release/dCore-jessie

If that directory does not work, start at http://tinycorelinux.net, click 'Downloads' (at top of page), then 'Other Ports (x86-64, dCore, & Raspberry Pi)', then 'Releases' in the 'dCore x86' section, then 'dCore-jessie'

Download these files and put them in C:dCore:

Note that windows will probably rename the kernel from vmlinuz-jessie to vmlinuz-jessie.txt - you should rename it back to vmlinuz-jessie after download. If you've got file extensions turned off in Windows Explorer, then this will be inconvenient, and it's probably less effort to edit the launcher script to include the .txt even though the kernel is not a text file.

If you're being thorough, download the 'md5' files and use them to check the integrity of the files.

Download Qemu

I use the build of qemu found at http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu

Download Qemu-2.5.0-windows.7z and extract it into C:dCore - this will create a directory C:dCoreQemu-windows-2.5.0 containing the various qemu exe files and DLLs, etc.

Create empty disk image

We need to create a virtual hard drive to store persistent files in. Open a command prompt in C:dCore and run the following qemu-img command (you may want to specify a size different than 4G, depending on requirements):

Close the command prompt window.

Create launcher script

Micro Core Linux

Create a batch file 'C:dCorego.cmd' and edit it to contain (or download):

Note: There can be no spaces at the end of the lines after ^

Things you might want/need to edit:

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• QEMUDIR - if you're using a different version of qemu, or have saved it somewhere else.
• QEMUEXE - if you're not using 64-bit windows then you probably need qemu-system-i386.exe
• the name of the kernel/initrd if you've got a newer release of dCore than Jessie, or they have different names (like an unwanted .txt extension).
• change the -k line to change the keyboard layout - you can see the valid options in C:dCoreQemu-windows-2.5.0Bioskeymaps
• change the -m line to change the amount of memory allocated to the VM.
• change the window title with the -name line.
• change the -redir line to alter port-forwarding - the line shown above redirects port 22022 on the host machine (your Windows computer) to port 22 inside the VM. This is no use right now, but will be useful if you install SSH inside the VM.
• in the -append line you can setup kernel command-line options.
  • host=dcore sets the hostname of the VM.
  • xvesa=800x600x24 sets the VM display resolution.

Check

Just as a cross-check of the above instructions, this is what my directory contains:

First boot, and format virtual HDD

Double-click on go.cmd and wait for it to boot (takes about 30s on my machine). Note that the boot process is a little 'messy' - you may have some messages appearing over the top of console. There are also error messages regarding the floppy drive (fd0), since it doesn't exist.

Wait for it to stop printing things, then press [Enter] a few times to get a clean prompt.

On a normal system, we'd partition the HDD and install a bootloader - this is not necessary here because we have our kernel/initrd supplied externally to the VM. We create a filesystem directly on /dev/sda instead of the more usual /dev/sda1

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Run the following (ignore the harmless partition table warning):

Reboot and test

Click in the qemu window and run the following:

The VM will now reboot. Wait for it to start up and then have a look at the sda mountpoint:

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You should see that TinyCoreLinux has created the home, opt, and tce directories. If you create some SCE files (with sce-import), for example, they will be stored in /mnt/sda/tce/sce/

Similarly, your home folder files (for the default user 'tc') will be stored in /mnt/sda/home/tc/

References

• Qemu comes with a help file - refer to C:dCoreQemu-windows-2.5.0Docqemu-doc.html or find online qemu docs at http://wiki.qemu.org/Manual