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NOOB proof way to add firefox to tinycoreplus iso?
harassedstudent:
Hi Everyone,
I would appreciate if someone could tell me how, in newbie (dumbed down) terms how to add firefox to my tinycoreplus iso. So that it is present when I run tinycore off my USB stick. I want to use the OS as live medium only. I have read other posts and know that it has to do with compiling the iso with the firefox tcz file in it but no idea which folder to add the file to or where to get the file from.
I read in another post that a simple way to do it was to boot tinycore, download firefox and then the tcz would be in the tce/optional folder. While this was the folder that was listed when I downloaded firefox from apps. When I ran ezremaster and navigated to that folder nothing was there.
I would prefer to add the latest version of firefox to the iso. My computer is running lubuntu.
Thanks in advance.
Juanito:
If you're booting tinycore from a usb stick there's no need to use the iso and thus no need to remaster the iso to add firefox or any other extensions.
You can use the tc-install extension to install to usb stick.
Misalf:
If TinyCore was booted from CD or .ISO (without a TCE directory on any other installed storage device), downloaded extensions are located in /tmp/tce/optional/ .
Apart from EZRemaster you can also use IsoMaster (isomaster.tcz) to add files to an iso image. Just make sure you get all the needed dependancies. I just did that two days ago and I think it's actually the easiest/quickest way to edit an iso. However, replacing files can mess things up ("can't find initrd" and such errors) thus not really 'noob proof', but just adding files seems to work OK.
bmarkus:
Don't touch ISO, you do not need it. We are speaking about USB stick! Install TC on the USB stick, it is described thousand times on the forum, last few days ago. Than create /tce dir on the USB stick and install whatever you want from the repo (e..g. Firefox). Thats all.
Misalf:
I'm not sure, bmarkus. While modifying an ISO can indeed be seen redundant if booting from USB, maybe thats exactly what harassedstudent wants to know how to do.
I used to have a USB stick with several ISOs which could be booted via GRUB2.
And the topic title says "NOOB proof way to add firefox to tinycoreplus iso?".
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harassedstudent, can you be more specific? How exactly are you booting TinyCore?
A frugal USB installation of TinyCore with persistancy (a /tce directory) is probably the most noob proof way to carry Firefox around. No iso involved though.
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