Very easy... It will probably take less time to -do- all this than it takes to read it.
Once you have core 11.1 up and running, it will probably recognize your wired network automatically. If
sudo ping tinycorelinux.networks then your nic (lan card) is working, otherwise you'll need to trouble shoot.
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You'll want your tce directory to be located on persistent storage (your disk) in order to keep the extensions you download on hand - otherwise you would have to re-download them every time you reboot. Once you've booted core from the hard disk instead of the CD, this will likely already be the case.
readlink /etc/sysconfig/tcedirwill tell you where the tce directory is.
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You can use the
tce-ab command which is a console version of the gui "apps" application browser to download and install the Xwindows bits (for a basic GUI).
The extensions you'll probably need are
- Xprogs.tcz which contains a bunch of gui applets specific to Tiny Core ("apps", "mnttool", etc
- Xorg-7.7.tcz which is the base Xwindows engine
- aterm.tcz which is a terminal emulator
- flwm_topside.tcz which is the "fast light window manager", cutomized to have the title bar along the top like most others
- wbar.tcz which provides the icon bar on the Tiny Core screen
You can substitute your window manager of choice from the repo instead of flwm_topside, if you'd like, and wbar isn't strictly necessary.
You may get better graphical results if you also install the graphics-KERNEL.tcz extension (the system will figure out what kernel you are using and get the right extension) but if you -don't- need it, it might prevent the gui from working at all.
The tce-ab tool will automatically load any dependencies of the extensions you load so you don't have to worry about that (which is good 'cause there are a bunch of them!)
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Alternatively, you can do the whole mess in one command line with
tce-load -wi graphics-KERNEL Xprogs Xorg-7.7 aterm flwm_topside wbarand, assuming no errors, start X with the cleverly named command
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Once X is up and running, use the
apps tool to browse extensions and install
firefox-ESR. On the "Apps" window, click the "Apps" button, select "Cloud (Remote)" on the resulting menu and "Browse" on the sub-menu to populate the extension list in the left-hand pane and click an extension to see its info in the right-hand pane. The "Go" button installs the selected extension according to the drop-down selection to the left of the button (which defaults to "OnBoot", which is usually what you want).
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I see "tor-docs.tcz" in the repo but I don't see tor.tcz itself, so no luck there. You might be able to pull tor from one of the older repos but that might get you into dependency hell or get you a tor that doesn't protect you the way you expect it to.
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Note that all of the above will get you a working gui and a working browser but not sound - that's a whole nother discussion, so don't despair if you see a youtube video and it's silent.
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