Installing extensions without ethernet

[alanbcohen]

My immediate short-term goals for tc involve using it with an offline browser, java, and locally installed tiddlywiki.  However, I do not have immediate access to the internet from this machine.  I have created my tclocal directory on my mounted hard drive, downloaded (via another distro) some tce extensions (opera.tce and rox-filer.tce, for starters), placing them in my tclocal directory, and have attempted to execute them from aterm unsuccessfully.  How do you load extensions which are already downloaded to your system when you do not have connectivity?
Edit: This is a frugal install to my hd0,0 partition which also contains my PCLOS system.

(I will eventually ask about enabling the builtin Atheros wifi, which works fine with PCLOS and most other distros I've tried.  But, that is less important for now.)

[blinkkin]

Create tce directory on hda1 (depends on your configuration) and copy all *.tce or/and *.tcz files into. Then edit menu.lst in grub and add entry tce=hda1 at the end of kernel line. My menu.lst look like this:

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default 0
timeout 10
title tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet tce=hda3 restore=hda3 nolocal
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz
All extensions are loaded automatically and data (home, opt directory and so on) is stored in mydata.tgz file.

[^thehatsrule^]

Note that using local= (tclocal) is different from using tce=

If you want those .tce's to load at every boot, use tce=

See "core concepts" for more info.