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AndreasMeier:
Hi there,

I'm completely new to TinyCore Linux, but I found it is really great.
I read through the getting_started section of the website and through the installation section.

My computer is a FSC ThinClient, with a Geode CPU 1GHz, 256MB RAM and 192MB CF-Card.
TC is installed an the CF-Card.

I think, TC is running in cloud/internet mode, because no changes/installed apps are persistent after reboot.

Now, I want to figure out, what boot mode is best for me.
What I need is a fast boot up.
The apps I need, are the following:
- opera low-ram mode
- openoffice
- printer access to my cups server, running on another computer
- rdesktop to access freenx/nomachine terminal server

In addition, I want to make the Geode CPU frequency stepping dynamicly to save power / heat.

All these app installation and changes on configuration files should be persistent.
But boot time should be fast as it is now.

What mode should I use and how do I have to change my installation in order to change the boot mode/code?
What files do I have to edit?

Thanks in advance for a quick clear up.
Regards
Andreas

Juanito:
Since you have a relatively low amount of RAM available, your processor is relatively fast and you would like to use openoffice, which is heavy on resources (and will use more than 50% of your CF card), I would suggest you use tcz extensions - this will minimise the amount of RAM used.

If you would like the applications to be available at boot, then you can create a directory /tce in the root of the CF card and the extensions you copy to it will (probably) be automatically loaded at boot.

To make your set-up persistent across boots, you can set a backup using the control panel backup button. Add any required config files to /opt/.filetool.lst and they will automatically be loaded on re-boot.

This is just my suggestion on what to do - others might have better ideas...

Note that I only tested the cpufreq extension with intel speedstep processors, I'm not sure if it will work with a geode processor or not.

AndreasMeier:
Thanks for the quick answer.

First of all, forget the amount of RAM and size of CF-Card, both are changeable, so I'm trying right now to get a 1024MB sized RAM and also a bigger CF-Card (last if necessary).

To be more prezise on the usage of the ThinClient:
Prio1:
- need of a quick boot time
- need of a quick availability of Opera after bootup / quick start time of Opera.
  This is THE main app, I would use on the ThinClient.
- need of a quick availability of a pdf application to read pdf documents / quick start time of this app.
Prio2:
- openoffice would be used barely, so no quick start time of this app is needed
- also other apps that might come are not needed for quick avail after bootup

I installed TC on the CF-Card, which is /dev/hda1 (only one partition on the CF-Card).
After startup, I mounted /dev/hda1 to /mnt/hda1, but is was empty. Is that possible?
How do I have to mount the CF-Card correctly, in order to make the tce-directory?

Is there a difference between installings apps for my Prio1 or Prio2 issues?
Different installation process?

I'm working now many years with Debian Linux, but getting into a new distro and making the first steps with it is sometimes hard, so sorry for my questions (and more will probably follow).

Regards,
Andreas

Jason W:
I have no experience with cf cards, but Epdfview is a fairly light and capable pdf viewer.  But it requires gtk2, which takes several megabytes of space and is not the lightest toolkit.

jpeters:
I like gsview, since you have the ram; very fast; also gnumeric for a spreadsheet in place of OO.

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