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How to remember settings?
qb4:
Just to throw another cat in with the pigeons..
My fave is XFE, in 2-pane mode.
Would love a .tce.
I know it gets to be biggish with the required foxlibs, but hey, you only live once.
tobiaus:
i don't know if it would be that big. even with the libs, based on what i saw on the puppy forum, it should be less than half the size of firefox.
at least that's smaller than you think it would be, reading comparisons between foxlibs and qt. it seems xfe used to be x win commander. have you ever used the original, and is it any good? sometimes the earlier versions are less bloated (or won't even need foxlibs) and sometimes they're just annoying. the original emelfm is pretty good next to emelfm2, but i usually use the newer one since firefox already installs gtk2.
Jason W:
XFE was my first non-KDE file manager as it came with Vector Linux. It was my favorite before starting with ROX a little while back and later emelfm/emelfm2. I would like to see my old favorites around and XFE is another one of them. Version 0.88 is my favorite as it was still fairly small but also featureful and easy on the eyes. Another must have.
tobiaus:
it should be great to see both of them, so many people are used to orthodox filemanagers in linux (and i actually enjoyed using emelfm in dsl,) they don't always understand what a difference something like rox or xfe can make for others.
stuff like this really proves how much trouble is saved by tinycore's philosophy. whatever roberts has in mind (i'm trying to understand, i'm reading the 6 chapters he wrote right now,) it's easy to see this is something we never have to argue about including or excluding from the core. if you like it, use it. if you don't like it, it will never bother you or take up space :) modularization ftw. i dreamed that dsl would be like this, someday.
edit: getting back on topic, i finally have a keychain that will boot linux, using extlinux.tce and something like juanito's setup. i've never bothered because i thought it involved repartitioning a usb drive (this way, it did) and because i am not accustomed to having the option in the bios.
it's not exactly what i expected, new edit: even after adding restore=sda1, it does not seem to save any settings, but tce=sda1 seems to keep the extensions (default settings each boot.) extlinux needed me to enter /boot/bzImage every time, and complained it couldn't find image: linux. so i copied ./boot/bzImage to ./boot/linux and now it boots automatically! still no restore yet:
--- Code: ---kernel /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet vga=773 noswap laptop tce=sda1 restore=sda1 waitusb=5 noscan
--- End code ---
curaga:
tobiaus, why not copy the isolinux.cfg? Or rather the structure. Here's that with your parts added:
--- Quote ---default tinycore
label tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage
append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet vga=773 noswap laptop tce=sda1 restore=sda1 waitusb=5
timeout 300
--- End quote ---
I believe the key to autoboot is to create a label, and then make it the default. BTW noscan is not a valid option, what did you try to skip?
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