Remaster

[jrock2004]

Thank you for the information administrator. The only issue is that this version of linux will be used by are sales team and we would not like them to have to bootup and go into the app browser. I would prefer to have it nice and easy. I will still research and see. Maybe I will need to extract the file system and load opera in manually like you said.

Remastering Tiny Core makes sense when certain libraries and modules are needed in core.
But to do the typical remaster for applications does not give much advantage.

Of course it can be done. But...
Everything from tinycore.gz is loaded into memory. You no longer have choices as you do now.
The time to load into memory whether at boot from compressed cpio or from a compressed tar or ziofs/cramfs is not much different. The concept behind Tiny Core is that Tiny Core is the engine.

In the beginning we had thought about offering Tiny Core versions with certain collections of appllications. We decided not to, with not much different load tiime and a hit on ram requiremens (like only having tces) , but to offer many more choices instead.

Use the optional directory ( located under your tce directory ) is highly advantageous. Only place the apps that you need upon each and every boot into your tce directory, place apps that are used on occasion into optional directory, i.e, perhaps, compiletc, or oo2. Then when those apps are needed use appsbrowser File>Install Optional

Note when using appsbrowser, you can download directly to the optional directory by using the Download Only option. When using this option the optional directory will be automatically setup if needed.

For faster load times, using tcz is faster than using tce and, of course, using a PPI is no load time.

[tobiaus]

Thank you for the information administrator. The only issue is that this version of linux will be used by are sales team and we would not like them to have to bootup and go into the app browser.

tinycore gives you a lot of options, more than some people might originally suspect. there are times when having many options is confusing- right now you're new to tc and you can help yourself a lot by using appbrowser to obtain your extensions, using the "download only" feature. if you're new, this is a better way to download them.

once you understand how the extensions work together (it's not complex like it sounds) then it won't matter whether you use the appbrowser or any browser to download the .dep files and needed extensions. the fact that you're not doing this is probably why you're having problems with things like opera and other browsers, so that's one issue.

the other issue is that you can have a cd, with all your extensions added- without using appbrowser on each boot (but most importantly) without ever touching tinycore.gz. there are two levels of remaster, one puts things in tinycore.gz, you won't usually need to. the other level of "remaster" just adds extensions to the iso image/cd, that's probably what you want to do, and it's easier.