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Offline add.thebad

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fire fox on startup
« on: November 30, 2009, 03:40:10 PM »
hi i am a complete newbie for tiny core but this is what i want to do

how can i make fire fox load on boot
how can i make it so i dont have to install stuff every time i boot
and how can i change the wallpaper other than change the colour

basically i want to play around and make a small kinda chrome os but for fire fox. ive been wanting to do i for ages but now ive found tiny core i feel i have the right starting block

thanks for any help
adam
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Offline Guy

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Re: fire fox on startup
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2009, 03:54:04 PM »
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how can i make it so i dont have to install stuff every time i boot
Install it on the hard drive or a usb drive. I suggest you use persistent home and opt. Install programs using the Appbrowser.

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how can i change the wallpaper other than change the colour
Put a suitable jpg file in /opt/backgrounds
select it using the control panel
« Last Edit: November 30, 2009, 07:19:14 PM by Guy »
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Re: fire fox on startup
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2009, 04:03:15 PM »
All you need to do is add a boot option, for example.

tce=hda2

Where hda2 is a partition on a hard drive.
Then when you use appbrowser, the extensioins will be stored there under a directrory named "tce" and be loaded upon next boot. Also your backup of home will be saved in same directory and named "mydata.tgz"

I would only recommend other forms of persistence after you get a feel for how Tiny Core works and only if you really need such!
« Last Edit: November 30, 2009, 04:26:29 PM by roberts »
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Offline ^thehatsrule^

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Re: fire fox on startup
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2009, 06:02:11 PM »
bootlocal.sh will not work.  An appropriate file could be ~/.xsession
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Offline robc

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Re: fire fox on startup
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2009, 06:02:20 PM »
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how can i make fire fox load on boot
put
/usr/local/firefox-official/firefox
in /opt/bootlocal.sh. I Think. Just check.
This won't work. X needs to be started before firefox, so it would need to go in the .xsession script in $HOME (/home/tc). .xession would have to be backed up in order for it to persist.

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how can i make it so i dont have to install stuff every time i boot
There are many ways to do this, the easiest is the way roberts suggested which would require the use of a hard drive or other storage device. You could also do a remaster, there are some instructions in the wiki.

Is this for a kiosk or something similar? If so there is some info here: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=2954.0
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Offline djrao

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Re: fire fox on startup
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2009, 06:00:40 AM »
First you have to install on Hard disk, then you can install the fire fox. check the following URL for install on HDD.

http://www.tinycorelinux.com/install.html
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