Hi
Unfortunately I see that a lot of the documentation is out of date. I have still no access to the wiki. There are many posts in the forum, some are very old and out of date, others are very new and useful, for example how to delete an extension with the new version of apps. With an outdated documentation, that you are asked to read in several places, you only provoke many forum entries and a lot of support-time! But for now it's just like that, which is why I'm posting a summary of my questions here to make it easier for you:
After I installed TinyCore, with the help of a CorePlus USB stick, some questions came up:
1. Is it important for the installation which option I use to boot CorePlus from USB? I chose the first option.
2. I see that my installation does not exactly match the TinyCore documentation. I have a tce folder and IN IT are the folders boot, onedemand, optional and 5 files. Is this ok?
3. Since I use TinyCore as a second installation on my notebook, I have a Grub2 with a menu. I edit the menu with a "Grub-Customizer" tool. There I made a menu point for TinyCore and added the following code:
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root "d4210083-19e6-48bb-a400-925ea377a71d"
linux /tce/boot/vmlinuz quiet waitusb=5
initrd /tce/boot/core.gz
TinyCore boots and I don't see any errors. Still the question is, is this code sufficient?
4. I have a Latinamerica keyboard and want to "install" it. How do I toggle this? How can I set the correct setting for my keyboard, permanently?
5. I have seen that many applications are not up to date, Chromium for example. I would like to have at least the most important applications up to date. Is there an easy way to install packages from other distributions, debian for example? If not, can I convert a Debian package to run in TInyCore (or is there some kind of emulator)? If so, how and where do I have to place it? I tried this instructions, but unfortunately they don't work.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,23595.0.htmlhttp://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86_64/tcz/src/chromium-browser/The first line reports that "things" do not exist. I installed these one by one with apps. But I can't find all of them, for example jdk8 and ncurses5.
Second line seems to work.
The third and fourth lines do not give any output in the terminal.
The fifth line reports "no such directory".
I didn't try any further. Is there a beginner's guide that works?
If it works, will the new Chromium be updated? Or do I have to repeat the procedure every time I want the newest version?
6. Is there an automatic updater, like in many Linux distros, which updates both the applications and the system, once a week or depending on the setting? I ask because I might want to get an old computer working again for a friend. And the friend has no chance of doing manual things.
Well, those are the most important questions at the moment. I hope you accept that I wrote them all in one post