Help: Howto Convert tce to tcz

[mrwutang]

Hey all, hows everybody?Im new to Linux and been using Ubuntu for past 6 months. Found Tinycore on google and decided to try it out, its awsom. Tiny distro which I can carry around in ma pendrive, daym what else could I ask for . So all the extension I downloaded are tce, and now its takin a toll on ma ram, is there any way I can convert them to tcz? There are a lotta files and I've a slowass net.Dont wanna spend another day downloading all that stuff.
Also if theres any other way to get tinycore to copy all my files to pendrive instead of ram, it'd be cool. Sory, if this is a lame question yall. Using TC has been a great experience so far, if I can fix this, theres no need to go back to ubuntu for me, I can be all TC all tha way  . Thnx for any help.
Edit: I also googled it a lot. COuldnt find anything. Im stumped.

[Juanito]

So all the extension I downloaded are tce, and now its takin a toll on ma ram, is there any way I can convert them to tcz? There are a lotta files and I've a slowass net.Dont wanna spend another day downloading all that stuff.

If you have or download the squashfs-tools-4.0.tcz and tar.tcz extensions, you can convert your tce extensions like this:

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$ mkdir /tmp/pkg
$ cd /tmp/pkg
$ cp /path-to-extension/extension.tce /tmp/pkg
$ sudo tar xzf extension.tce
$ rm extension.tce
$ cd ..
$ sudo mksquashfs pkg/ extension.tcz
$ sudo chown tc:staff extension.tcz
$ cp extension.tcz /path-to-safe-place
however, if the tce extensions contain config files in /usr/local/etc or similar, you will not be able to edit those config files - see the wiki entry for extension building or these forums for more details on how to get around this using start-up scripts.

Also if theres any other way to get tinycore to copy all my files to pendrive instead of ram, it'd be cool.

If you have the tcz extensions in a folder named /tce on your pendrive (eg /mnt/sda1/tce), then they will automatically be "mounted" on boot rather than copied to ram and will comsume far less ram.

[mrwutang]

Wow, that was fast, thanx Juanito, Ill try this. Although I donno what effect not being able to edit those config files will have. This communitys great.  Did I say thnx? . Thnx again.

[mrwutang]

And one more thing. Is there any diff between tcel and tce or tcz adnd tczl? Im too much of a noob arent I?

[Juanito]

tcel is equivalent to tczl, tcem to tczm.

The "l" means run "ldconfig" to load libs, the "m" means run "depmod" to make modules available

[mrwutang]

Much obliged Juanito. Cant thank you enough. . So Does that mean all I have to do is squashfs those tce archives and I get a tcz?That cool. Hope I  make extensions someday. Wishful thinking

[mrwutang]

Made a tcz, it was easy. But I checked the online repository to be sure and theres a diff between the sizes the tcz files there and mine .For ex the firefox.tce files 10.1mb after squashing but its 12.something mb in the repository. Whats happening?

[Juanito]

The default block size in the squashfs-tools extension was changed in the last few days, which would make the resulting tcz file size larger - did you use the latest version of the extension?