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Get APPS with no internet on TC laptop? Load APS on boot from auto-mounted USB?
grandma:
Great POINT Jur: absolutely correct - majority of ALL problems ALL users encounter nearly ALWAYS are a result of "trying to do something - anything -with "Windows involved".
So all my objectives here are to get TC working - asap - on install - then do everything possible in Linux from there on. This policy was firmly established by realizing most of my friends and clients can't operate system admin utilities and most free Windows aps are either buggy or infected or will soon be infected. I run the #1 firewall made (some ratings/reviews) and stuff gets past it.
jur:
I haven't read through all your replies - rather long - but seems to me the easiest way to migrate is:
1. defrag the drive. Data backup assumed.
2. Use parted magic (or tcl on a stick), or a win partition editor, shrink the win partition and make about 4GB room for a second partition.
3. Create an etx3 partition on that spare space. Or at least a 100MB FAT32 if you can't boot from a CD.
4. Manually create /boot and /tce folders, populate /boot with tinycore.gz and BzImage.
5. Use one of the excellent multi-boot sw packages to set up a dual boot with win and tcl. Boot into tcl.
6. From within tcl, load GParted and create a ext3 partition on the rest of the space. Set boot options to have your /opt and /home there, and the /tce.
7. Reboot. Go play.
grandma:
Jur - you are right again - for some folks used to Windows - and early backup policies are always wise.
But defrags and optimize etc. - in Windows? Been there - prefer to learn the Linux utils and automate them via command lines.
My method: Get TC installed - on NTFS - get the wifi/ethernet utils working so it can go online, install a Part/Optimize utility that can run automatically, then slice out the TC areas, then get TC working on EXT2 - with a FAT area for sharing across systems.
2byte:
ntfsresize
linux.die.net/man/8/ntfsresize
parted
linux.die.net/man/8/parted
These are common Linux utilities, probably already in TC, or one of the extensions.
Juanito:
--- Quote from: grandma on April 28, 2011, 11:23:16 AM ---...and then a simple command line Partition manager.
--- End quote ---
ntfsprogs from the repo
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