Sir, I have to say thank you for replying. However, as indicated by your post’s title, all you did was copy & paste from tiny core concepts. I’ve already indicated that tinycore concepts, in it current incarnation, is worthless. Please allow me help you and many other prospective tinycore users.
Re-posting from Core Concepts...
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
Backup/Restore and Other Persistency Options:
Backup/Restore
After setting up your new system, you will want to save your settings. There is a file called /opt/.filetool.lst. It is a simple text file of files and directories listed one per line using a full path that the user wants to save/restore. Use any of the GUI tools provided on the Tools menu or any editors available via extensions or vi to change/update (e.g., select Beaver, then open /opt/.filetool.lst).
Really?? Who cares? I cannot access opt/.filetool.lst as there is no file manager. Installing a file manager does not help. If one restarts after installing a file manager, then the file manager is deleted.
Re-posting from Core Concepts...
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
Backup/Restore and Other Persistency Options:
Backup/Restore
. Use any of the GUI tools provided on the Tools menu or any editors available via extensions or vi to change/update (e.g., select Beaver, then open /opt/.filetool.lst).
What?? English please. Beaver does not work. How about some simple steps versus paragraphs that accomplish nothing. Which gui tool? How about steps to use it?
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Re-posting from Core Concepts...
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
Backup/Restore and Other Persistency Options:
Backup/Restore
The default is to backup the entire home/tc directory. However, one can choose to selectively backup only certain files. However it is important to note that the entry /opt/.filetool.lst must NOT be removed from the .filetool.lst as this provides for persistence for the .filetool.lst itself.
Additionally you may add a directory to the location of the backup, e.g., restore=hdXY/a_directory This
I presume that you are saying that extensions are downloaded into home and their setting are also in home. Had the documentation been written better, I’d have no need to ask.
Re-posting from Core Concepts...
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
The backup will be written to a file called "mydata.tgz". You can initially select the storage device by using the boot option of: restore=hdXY or after boot, by selecting "Backup/Restore" from the "Panel". Your backup will be automatically searched for and restored during subsequent booting. Once a mydata.tgz has been successfully created, the boot option may be omitted. Autoscan once again is there to support "hands free" booting. And as before, always specifying the boot option speeds your boot time.
Really?
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Please point to the part of the documentation that tells one how to effect the following: “using the boot option of: restore=hdXY”
Re-posting from Core Concepts...
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html
…You can initially select the storage device by using the boot option of: restore=hdXY or after boot, by selecting "Backup/Restore" from the "Panel".[/b] Your backup will be automatically searched for and restored during subsequent booting. Once a mydata.tgz has been successfully created, the boot option may be omitted. Autoscan once again is there to support "hands free" booting. And as before, always specifying the boot option speeds your boot time.
The preceding is false. However, it may be true if one follows guidelines that are shamefully & flagrantly absent from
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html.
What is my bottom line?
Sir, I do not mean to affronting. However, truth is truth.
Your system is far different than the top eight distros at
www.distrowatch.com. Your documentation is woefully lacking in some areas. This is why your documentation fails. Also as a small distro, there is very limited google help. Your documentation entitled at
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html does not contain step-by-step instructions. It alienates prospective “Tinycore” users; it alienates linux users who are competent enough to quadruple boot Linux & Vista; competent enough to use mkdir, competent enough to manual edit grub; competent enough to create grub rescue Cds & USB drives and last but not least competent enough to use dd & backup critical file to include the MBR, which is actually a collection of few files and programs. I am no Linux guru or windows IT, but I am competent. It is unfortunate that your documentation is my only obstacle
Teach me and I will gladly rewrite it.
Final bottom LineThe documentation found at:
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html is useless. The
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/concepts.html is not step-by-step; It is conversational patter. It ruins what is otherwise a remarkably great small distro. For any one accustomed to the documentation associated with the larger vendors of windows software, Ubuntu, Suse Debian or PCLinux, be prepared for hampering disappointment.