2018-12-29 afbjorklund
TinyCore Containers
The standard way of running is using the ISO on a physical server or virtual machine:
wget http://www.tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86_64/release/CorePure64-9.0.iso
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom CorePure64-9.0.iso
This will start the normal “isolinux” boot process, including starting another kernel.
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Press <Enter> to begin or F2, F3, or F4 to view boot options.
boot:
And that works fine, virtualization can be hardware-accelerated with KVM (or similar)
$ kvm-ok
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used
But when building packages and cross-compiling, it can be useful to run in a container…
cc
The Tiny Core Linux distribution is also available as a standard OCI container image:
$ sudo podman run -it boot2podman-docker-tinycore.bintray.io/tinycore:9.0-x86_64
/ $ grep -i pretty /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="TinyCoreLinux 9.0"
A container build image is available, that feature tinycore with compiletc package:
$ sudo podman run -it boot2podman-docker-tinycore.bintray.io/tinycore-compiletc:9.0-x86_64
/ $ cc --version
cc (GCC) 7.2.0
go
Another add-on image to it is also available, including the go compiler environment:
$ sudo podman run -it boot2podman-docker-tinycore.bintray.io/tinycore-go:1.10.4
/ $ go version
go version go1.10.4 linux/amd64
This sets up the needed variables (such as $PATH/$GOPATH), and git command:
/ $ go get github.com/golang/example/hello
/ $ hello
Hello, Go examples!
Packages
Just run
sudo podman run -it boot2podman-docker-tinycore.bintray.io/tinycore:9.0-x86_64
To install tcz packages into the container and use them, run the tce-load command
tce-load -wic bash.tcz
or run the container with privilege mode like following
sudo podman run -it --privileged boot2podman-docker-tinycore.bintray.io/tinycore:9.0-x86_64
Once it starts with privilege mode, you can run the package manager like
tce-ab
Upstream
These original packages are found under
Container images have been adopted from
Source
See https://github.com/boot2podman/boot2podman/tree/master/containers
This includes all the build scripts to build the container images from scratch.