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Get APPS with no internet on TC laptop? Load APS on boot from auto-mounted USB?
grandma:
Today - 6 weeks after starting with TC, I finally got my background desktop to save. Not sure how or why, but here are some hints for folks using the SVOLLI NTFS version - thelitecore.iso - that might help.
1. Since I was booting from C: (NTFS drive) according to Svolli's /TCE folder, and could never get a backup to save, I THINK (check with engineers here) that as TC is booting, the first drive it saw was my G: - not C:. G: was set up as my first hard drive TC and had mydata.tgz on it and was a Fat32. Since C: was NTFS and probably not recognized at first, perhaps TC would go to G: first and only after everything was loaded did it start to pull from C: (hda1) and not G: (hda2).
2. The other thing I did was mark the JPG being used for my background, which was generated by a Windows version of GIMP and stored on the NTFS drives, as +rwx+rwx+rwx - before copying it to the /opt/background folder in ram and then saving. The next boot it worked (after a month), though not sure if this helped.
3. Since I am shooting wifi signal 1/4 mile and it constantly dropped me every 10 - 30 seconds, whereas the Windows driver allowed for changing packet fragment threshold and RTS which kept it stable, I got into the WIFI script I use and that, plus the iwconfig pdf instructions allowed me to decrease RTS and fragement, keep power level at 100mW constant, and change sensitivity. As a result as I was downloading TCZ files - about an hour plus worth of time - the system never went offline. Additionally my Firefox is now rather robust, asked me for a profile which is also persistent now, and the system is getting pretty close to as robust as the Windows office I am used to and certainly runs faster. Adding Leaf was also a big help as whatever I don't do at a terminal is done in an editor like that and Leaf seems to have more normal page up/down and file open features I am used to.
I did get the menu adjusted with new aps I had installed (293 files thus far and growing, a lot of it due to my skype and flash requirements), but have not gotten skype to work yet: in fact one skype install script I found here wiped out my wmenu completely - as in dusted all icons and files - BE CAREFUL.
Since I could only HALT or REBOOT at that point if I was lucky enough to get a terminal, and didn't know if that would screw up my backup files and stick me with NO menu, and didn't know any other way to get to the control panel, I did a hard button shut down, came back up and everything was as it was the prior boot - so backup worked, but I don't know if all the TCZ files I had loaded were still there or not.
Will keep working on Skype - which, along with Flash, are the last major leg of this puzzle. Juanito was kind enough to point me towards the GCC compiler, but that may have to wait a bit as my intent is NOT to remaster or change the core - I don't need another maintenance child. The intent is to make sure anyone attempting a Windows Migration can easily get all required tools working - with one click.
Mplayer - no Dep - just locked up my entire system - had to do another hard reset - everything else came back fine - Firefox even remembered the last page I was on.
Not sure why gspdf still shows in wmenu - that program bombed first time and I ran it and it has been deleted - I tried epdfview and that worked well - am now testing TLC - a music player I am familiar with.
MikeLockmoore:
Grandma: by any chance, are you a relative of Jerry Pournelle? 8) There seems to be at least some narative resemblance.
gerald_clark:
Or Marcel Gagne?
grandma:
ooops - syntax error - "narrative" has 2 "r"'s
I am gonna guess if I ask Robert real sweet he MIGHT dust this entire post.
I wrote an install program so no one would have to endure what I went through and was pushed along - wonderful assistance - by a couple of admins here - and after trying nearly every flavor of Linux made its pretty obvious to this old bird Tiny Core rocks - just needs a few extra parts you folks may have forgotten for slow folks like me.
I'm fixing that right quick. Thank you for your patience as I live and learn.
By the way Gerald - looks like I owe you a favor - I looked up Marcel and saw they had a Windows Terminal Server program - wasn't sure how I was going to access one of my co-lo boxes that has bunch of clients on it - would love to change it to Linux but can't - and was stuck with the Microsoft ap to do that - but Marcel had the remote server ap in Linux and I grabbed that.
As soon as I figure out how to open a GZ file and run a program, I will let you know if you earned your burger and beer.
grandma:
--- Quote from: MikeLockmoore on May 03, 2011, 02:14:25 PM ---Grandma: by any chance, are you a relative of Jerry Pournelle? 8) There seems to be at least some narative resemblance.
--- End quote ---
So I checked out Jerry - bit of a rambler and goof ball - guess I am too - but some of his stuff is sorta kewl - and I was able to post an article on the nuclear industry there - thanks for the tip Mike.
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