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Tiny Core get much ratings at distroratings top-10
newbody:
Not only the latest 4.2 and CorePlus but way back he likes many versions of TC.
http://distroratings.com/top-10/
Jay he gives very high ratings compared to DistroWatch.
I am a reluctant noob so I am in a different category
compared to him. I find TC very interesting but I fail
to understand the descriptions how to make it work.
I am not smart enough. Sometimes I wonder if I should
set up a forum for us who fail to get what the regular users
answer in the official forums.
Suppose I ask here and fail to get what the answer means.
Some Mod comes in and tell me to read the Wiki or FAQ or
some other text that I don't get either.
then it is not so polite to ask again here.
In such situations it would be good to have a forum for us
that fail to get the answers. We could copy the answer to that forum
and then help each other out trying to grasp step by step what it maybe refers to.
That would be a great help. The huge problem is Spam. A lot of work to delete such all day.
yoshi314:
well, you can simply burn tinycore iso to cd and boot from it. and then you can run the installer to create yourself a usb stick with TC. shouldn't be that hard.
or ( if you e.g. do not have a cd drive ), there is an quick way to run TC if you are running windows on your computer, by adapting windows debian installer from this page :
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
(this will not damage your windows installation, but only add extra entry to windows boot menu)
if you need more info, feel free to ask.
i believe there should be some support forum for people with really basic issues, and very basic linux skills.
newbody:
--- Quote from: yoshi314 on December 29, 2011, 04:29:51 AM ---...
... if you are running windows on your computer,...
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
...
if you need more info, feel free to ask.
i believe there should be some support forum for people with really basic issues, and very basic linux skills.
--- End quote ---
Thanks yoshi, much appreciated.
I updated an install I have of TCL on a USB today. From 3.7 to 4.1 4.2 is too difficult for me to grasp.
RobertS and others have explained what is needed several times. I guess them are sick and tired
of me by now that I fail to grasp what they say. I have tried to follow their advice some three times.
Spent hours each time and totally failed. I end up each time either with a black screen with a prompt.
I have edited the onboot.lst or what name it had to include the files that is lacking in core.gz
but I guess I have to download them from the repo and have looked at them but they are too many.
My brain mblur out when I see all these files there. too many to choose among. Overwhelming.
Sad my brain is not on par with you guys. I feel lost.
Okay today I got TCL 4.1 going on the USB but it had too old things for OSS so it reported error on that one.
The Firefox was too old too. But the newest is FF9 and I need 3.6.24 but when I try to update then it
says I have not the priv to do it I have to ask the admin for it.
I guess I have to go to CLI Terminal and write sudo firefox and that would start FF with better permissions?
Would that be your take too or should one do sudo su or only su? So much more to learn.
Much appreciated you wrote this thing.
--- Quote ---i believe there should be some support forum for people with really basic issues, and very basic linux skills.
--- End quote ---
Yes but I trust the Admin and Mods on this forum would see it as too much noise so I would have to create
one at some other place
Friendly Forum for Linux Noobs onfreeforums.org/ ???????
AntiX which is a Debian sort of has their forum there antix.freeforums.org/
And that works well. So I am very tempted to start one. Unfriendly users would get instantly banned :)
yoshi314:
--- Quote from: newbody on December 29, 2011, 05:50:01 AM ---I updated an install I have of TCL on a USB today. From 3.7 to 4.1 4.2 is too difficult for me to grasp.
RobertS and others have explained what is needed several times. I guess them are sick and tired
of me by now that I fail to grasp what they say. I have tried to follow their advice some three times.
Spent hours each time and totally failed.
--- End quote ---
i think the simple way to do it is :
1. grab coreplus iso
2. unpack it somewhere (or you can browse the iso file with mc and copy files out)
3. replace kernel and initrd with new ones ( vmlinuz and core.gz ). you might to alter your bootloader config, or rename files, as tinycore.gz is now named core.gz. either rename core.gz or fix the syslinux config file on your usb
4. copy extensions from cde directory to your tce directory on usb
5. add contents of onboot.lst to your onboot.lst, just to be sure you do not miss any required extensions (especially the X related ones)
find the UUID or label of your usb partition with sudo blkid
e.g.
--- Code: ---# sudo blkid
(...)
/dev/sde2: UUID="0D8D-533A" TYPE="vfat"
(...)
--- End code ---
add boot parameter tce=UUID="0D8D-533A" to syslinux config on your USB.
or, you can backup your mydata.tgz and extensions, reinstall tc from scratch and copy them back over, adding them from apps audit tool.
Juanito:
If you've already upgraded to tc-4.1 (which I believe is the case), then I'd suggest the following to upgrade to tc-4.2
1. Use apps audit to update Xprogs, Xlibs, wbar and flwm (or use apps browser to download them if you don't already have them)
2. Use apps browser to download fltk-1.10 (and Xvesa if you don't have it)
3. Download core.gz and copy it to the same folder as tinycore.gz
4. Use apps audit to edit onboot to include Xprogs, Xvesa, flwm, wbar
5. Edit your boot loader to point to core.gz instead of tinycore.gz
Reboot
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