Extension only for configurations

[Op.Davoron]

Hello,

The situation:
A PC is booting TC over Network with pxeboot.
The PC has no hard-drive and no network share.
The PC gather all extensions on boot from a http-list.

When TC is started, the main extensions get loaded but not configured.

Example: the X-Server get started but with a wrong resolution or wrong input device configs.

I have to do some configurations but don't want to do them manual after the TC starts, I don't want to do them permanently and I want to get the same configurations every time I start the PC.

I have written a script that do the configurations but at the moment i have to remaster each version of TC to add the Script or write some code in the bootlocal.sh that loads the scrip and executes it.

I think I haven't fully understood the “how to create extension-thing” so, maybe someone have the time to help me.

All I want is a extension with a Script to configure my Clients and these script has to get started short after the main boot process so i.e. I can insert a xorg.conf before the X-server get started and so on.

Thank you in advance for the help!
(hope everything is understandable, ask me if something is unclear)

[batnas]

I'm having the same problem.
I have installed MC on a small HHD and in grub i call 'tce=hda1'.
It does load all the extensions, but with default config.
How do we do config files permanently??

Otherwise I should call a script on startup, and have it copy/paste my config files, but that is not the optimal way to do it.

\\Batnas

[gerald_clark]

Add any config files you have edited to /opt/.filetool.lst.
Add any custom startup code to /opt/bootlocal.sh.
Do a 'filetool.sh backup'.

[Guy]

To make a new extension you need the squashfs-tools-4.0 extension installed.

Create a directory for your new extension. For example:

mkdir -p /home/tc/myext

Copy directories and files to myext. You must include directories. For example, if your file is in /usr/local/myfile use /home/tc/myext/usr/local/myfile.

To make a new extension:

sudo su
cd /home
mksquashfs myext/ new-extension-name.tcz

Paste the new extension to the /tce/optional directory.

If you want it to be loaded when you start the computer, add it to CPanel -> Apps Audit -> On Boot.

If you want it to be available on demand, add it to CPanel -> On Demand.

If you want more than one extension to be loaded at the same time, create a .dep file with the names of other extension(s) to be loaded. (If you run CPanel -> Apps Audit -> Dependencies -> Update Dep Database, the .dep file will be removed, so save a copy to put back after running it.)

If you want it to be run when you start the computer, add it to CPanel -> Apps Audit -> On Boot, and add the start command to /opt/bootlocal.sh.


Once you understand how to make extensions, if you use persistent home and opt, and make extensions for anything else you want to save, you don't need to use backup.