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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: bigpcman on January 21, 2009, 01:16:42 PM

Title: how to speed up getflash install process when doing "optional" firefox install?
Post by: bigpcman on January 21, 2009, 01:16:42 PM

Thanks guys for fixing the flash install process via the new minefield extension. Works great now. I noticed the getflash9 script gets the f9p_archive and puts it in /tmp temporarily and then unpacks it. This takes a long time, several minutes. To cut down on the install time for ongoing optional installs, I wonder if it is possible to store the f9p_archive in the /tce/optional directory and have the getflash9 script load it from there? Or maybe there is another way to cut down on the option install time. What do you think?

Title: Re: how to speed up getflash install process when doing "optional" firefox install?
Post by: roberts on January 21, 2009, 01:50:09 PM

The getFlash script extracts and creates a flash9.tce which is all you need.
The script tries to find your tce directory and places flash9.tce there.
getFlash should be a one time only thing, run once to get your flash9 extension.

Title: Re: how to speed up getflash install process when doing "optional" firefox install?
Post by: bigpcman on January 21, 2009, 02:07:37 PM

That is really slick! So to make flash install optional I presume I would just move the flash.tce to the optional directory and activate it along with minefield. I'll try it.

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edit: Yep, that works.