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TCL on a pendrive to run an Asus EeePC 1000HA?
Mike7:
Hi, and cheers to everyone in the Tiny Core Netbooks forum group!
I'm new to this forum, new to Tiny Core Linux, and relatively new to Linux, although I did work for five years in the 1990s at a Unix mainframe terminal with emacs (no x-windows), so I'm not a total newbie to Unix-like operating systems.
I have an Asus EeePC 1000HA with the original WindowsXP SP3 on the hdd. It's been my only computer for five years. I've never owned anything besides laptops or netbooks because I travel a lot. My first was a Z88, designed by Clive Sinclair back in 1987 before the days of the laptop PC.
After five years of hard use, the hdd on my 1000HA is wearing down. I always backup important files, but the fact is that I love this little netbook and don't want anything else. So I thought I'd extend its life by putting a small, run-in-RAM Linux op sys on a pendrive and use that instead of the hdd.
I've researched a lot of Linux distros and the one that has perhaps most impressed me is Tiny Core Linux. I like the images in the .png files at the download sites, I like its modular nature, and I like the documentation. It looks to me like a serious distro, and I want to give it a try.
I've read the pertinent pages in your wiki and in this forum, but I still have some unanswered questions before I try to install TCL on a pendrive. I hope the kind folks here will help me with answers.
Here are my questions:
-- Will Tiny Core Linux (and/or Core Plus, Multicore) work on an Asus EeePC 1000HA if run from a pendrive? Will the keyboard functions, power management, and other features of the EeePC 1000HA be preserved?
-- Can core2usb.exe be used to install the recent versions of TCL (TinyCore-4.7.4, CorePlus-4.7.4, multicore_3.8.4) on a pendrive? If not, what is the most recent version that core2usb.exe supports?
-- Does TCL have persistence when installed on a pendrive (for example a savefs file or a casper_rw file)? If so,which versions have it?
-- Is there a fairly painless way to add wireless support to Tiny Core (rather than Core Plus or Multicore) once it is installed?
-- Does Tiny Core have some sort of minimal browser? Can a better browser be added to it once it has wireless support, if such is possible?
That's all I have for now. I'm looking forward anxiously to your response.
Thanks!
Mike7
Rich:
Hi Mike7
If your EeePC 1000 is capable of booting from a thumb drive, it should work. There are posts from members who
have run Tinycore on EeePCs including any special steps they may have taken. The search page should help you
to locate them.
--- Quote ---Can core2usb.exe be used to install the recent versions of TCL (TinyCore-4.7.4, CorePlus-4.7.4, multicore_3.8.4) on a pendrive?
--- End quote ---
Yes, though Multicore is obsolete.
--- Quote ---Does TCL have persistence when installed on a pendrive (for example a savefs file or a casper_rw file)? If so,which versions have it?
--- End quote ---
Tinycores persistence is achieved either through a persistent /home or a mydata.tcz file (compressed tar archive).
Read the concepts page on the website and check the Wiki.
--- Quote ---Is there a fairly painless way to add wireless support to Tiny Core (rather than Core Plus or Multicore) once it is installed?
--- End quote ---
Coreplus is the preferred method. Don't let the size of the ISO fool you, it's only due to all the extra drivers.
--- Quote ---Does Tiny Core have some sort of minimal browser? Can a better browser be added to it once it has wireless support, if such is possible?
--- End quote ---
Tinycore has many different browsers available.
curaga:
The hard drive on it seems to be very easily replaceable: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4655
Mike7:
Hi, Rich. Thanks for your replies to my questions. I've been busy with a leaky roof all week and haven't had time to respond until now.
--- Quote ---If your EeePC 1000 is capable of booting from a thumb drive, it should work.
--- End quote ---
It is. I have Kaspersky Rescue Disk on a pendrive and it boots fine.
--- Quote ---There are posts from members who have run Tinycore on EeePCs including any special steps they may have taken. The search page should help you to locate them.
--- End quote ---
As I said, I looked through them before posting. Nothing very useful there, especially since the various EeePC models are quite different one from another.
--- Quote ---Yes, though Multicore is obsolete.
--- End quote ---
Great! I'll give core2usb.exe a try as soon as I have the chance. I've had total unsuccess making bootable pendrives from Linux distro iso's, and I've tried all the usual installer programs.
Thanks for the tip-off re Multicore.
--- Quote ---Tinycores persistence is achieved either through a persistent /home or a mydata.tcz file (compressed tar archive). Read the concepts page on the website and check the Wiki.
--- End quote ---
I'll do as you suggest.
--- Quote ---Coreplus is the preferred method. Don't let the size of the ISO fool you, it's only due to all the extra drivers.
--- End quote ---
I suppose that the unused drivers in Coreplus can be removed and space reduced?
Please excuse me for insisting, but can wireless support be added to Tiny Core?
What interested me about Tiny Core in contrast to Coreplus was, in particular, the x-windows interface and the simple, straight-forward way everything seems to be arranged in the windows. I'm tired of fancy GUIs. But perhaps the Tiny Core interface is an option in Coreplus?
--- Quote ---Tinycore has many different browsers available.
--- End quote ---
Good to know!
Thanks again for your help.
Cheers!
Mike
Mike7:
Hi, Curaga.
--- Quote ---The hard drive on it seems to be very easily replaceable: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4655
--- End quote ---
That was back in 2008 <grin>. And even then, when they were still easily obtained, they cost almost as much as the computer. Now, I'd be surprised if I could find one.
Cheers!
Mike
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